![OSCE promotes interstate co-operation in maritime security](https://turan.az/resized/./turan-750-500-resize.webp)
OSCE promotes interstate co-operation in maritime security
National experts from four Caspian littoral OSCE participating states discussed effective mechanisms of incident and conflict prevention and security management on the maritime borders at an OSCE-organized roundtable meeting that concluded in Ashgabat today.
Maritime border security officers, navy officers and customs officials from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russian Federation and Turkmenistan, as well as officials from the OSCE Secretariat participated in the discussion.
"The purpose of today's event is to help ensure concerted action to enhance maritime borders security while encouraging cross-border cooperation, in the Caspian region," said Ambassador Ivo Petrov, Head of the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat in his opening address. "We believe that the dialogue established among participants during this event will contribute towards further co-operation among them and their states."
Penny Satches-Brohs, Senior Advisor on Border Issues of the Transnational Threats Department of the OSCE Secretariat added: "Caspian interstate co-operation could become a model of effective interstate and interagency co-operation which would contribute towards effective conflict and incident prevention,"
Best practices of conflict prevention and conflict management in maritime security procedures, as well as applied mechanisms in maritime border surveillance operations were also discussed during the roundtable event, reads OSCE press release.-0-
Politics
-
On 26 July "Platform III of the Republic" made a statement which drew attention to the unlawful seizure of electronic devices of underage children of the arrested head of this structure Akif Gurbanov.
-
From 19 to 26 July, 24 automatic rifles, 1 machine gun, 9 rifles, 28 grenades, 441 shells, 3118 cartridges of different calibre and other ammunition were found in Khankendi, the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry reported. During the mentioned period, the police found 1 machine gun, 50 grenades, 7 fuses, 3 shells and 320 cartridges of different calibre in Shusha.
-
President Ilham Aliyev has approved by decree the Azerbaijan-Kazakh intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in military intelligence defense sector. The document was signed in Baku on 7 June 2024.
-
At the trial of the opposition politician Tofig Yagublu, the statement of Elnur Vaqifoglu, another accused, was heard at the Baku Serious Crimes Court.
Leave a review