Baku / 09/06/19 / Turan: On September 6, the XXII meeting of the Conference of Special Services of Turkic-Speaking States opened in Baku.
Today, participants in the meeting were received by President Ilham Aliyev. Earlier in his address to the participants, he noted that Azerbaijan attaches great importance to cooperation in the field of international security.
The timely identification and prevention of these threats is extremely important from the point of view of national interests and sustainable development of all states. To eliminate threats of a regional and global nature, coordination of the actions of all states of the world is necessary.
Strengthening ties with fraternal Turkic-speaking countries is of particular importance for Azerbaijan. Our cooperation, carried out in various formats, is aimed at joining efforts to resolve many issues, including those related to ensuring regional security, combating extremism, terrorism and separatism, illegal migration, drug trafficking and the activities of transnational organized criminal groups, the statement said. -02D-
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