POLITICS
INTERNATIONAL BORDER ISSUES CONFERENCE’S WORKING GROUP HOLDS SESSION IN BAKU
The event brought together Representatives of frontier bodies of Azerbaijan, Germany, Switzerland, Lithuania, Hungary, USA, Russia and Georgia, as well as local Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Internal Affairs and National Security, and Interpol’s Azerbaijan Bureau.
Opening the session Major-General Farhad Tagizade, Deputy Chief of the Azerbaijan State Frontier Service pointed out there was a necessity to establish the structure, and yearly increase in number of its members is a case in point. “It is clear as the groups committing terrorist acts in Turkey, Iraq, European countries and Northern Caucasus, are striving to get firearms, ammunition and radioactive materials.”
He stressed the fact of Azerbaijan’s location at the turn of Asia and Europe, construction in the region of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil and Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipelines, restoration of the historic Silk Road and implementation of other large-scale economic projects, increases the topicality of the issue and the need for its in-depth study, and conducting joint actions to prevent illegal trafficking of firearms, ammunition and radioactive materials.
The working group is expected to discuss the results of the work done by the Azerbaijan State Frontier Service for prevention illegal trafficking of firearms, ammunition and radioactive materials, foreign experience in this field and other related issues.