The Department to Fight against Terrorism of the U.S. State Department noted some successes by the Azerbaijani government in the fight against terrorism, the proliferation of biochemical threats, money laundering, and strengthening border controls.
Special 2011report by the Department noted the Government of Azerbaijan completed modernization of its Central Reference Laboratory, a state-of-the-art bio-safety facility that will make joint research on potential bioterrorism threats possible. Through the Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation Prevention Program, the Azerbaijan government assumed responsibility for the sustainment of seven radar stations along the Caspian coast used by the Navy, Coast Guard, and State Border Service on order to conduct maritime surveillance and detect smuggling threats. On border security, the State Border Service installed new portal monitors during its upgrade at the Ganja international airport, a project assisted by the Department of Energy's Second Line of Defense Program (SLD). Azerbaijan also launched the National Communication System pilot project, a new SLD initiative to centralize information received from portal monitors at various border crossings.
According to a report, the Government of Azerbaijan has demonstrated an increasing level of professionalism in anti-money laundering and counterterrorist financing (AML/CTF) since 2009, when it adopted AML/CTF legislation. Azerbaijan continued to work with MONEYVAL to address the full range of AML/CTF issues identified in its Mutual Evaluation Report.
Throughout 2011, working groups composed of representatives of Azerbaijan and the other four Caspian Sea littoral states, met to coordinate law enforcement efforts aimed at countering terrorism as well as smuggling, narcotics trafficking, and organized crime on the Caspian. This work followed up on a November 2010 security cooperation agreement among the Caspian Sea littoral states.
In 2011, as part of this agreement, four working sessions of the groups took place. –01D06—
Politics
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