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Draft law on “Participation of Azerbaijan in peacekeeping operations” adopted by the parliament in first reading
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27 Oct 2009 18:51 ]

Baku. Elbrus Seyfullayev – APA. Milli Mejlis, the Azerbaijani parliament adopted the draft law on “Participation of Azerbaijan in peacekeeping operations” in first reading, APA reports. Member of the parliament’s security and defense committee Siyavush Novruzov reported about the document. He said Azerbaijani servicemen joined the peacekeeping operations in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan so far. The document determines regulations, forms and rules of participation of the countries in the peacekeeping operations conducted for prevention of local and regional wars, settlement and solution to the conflicts. “The draft law contains four chapters and 19 articles describing internationally legal basis and necessary conditions of the participation in the peacekeeping operations, functions of military and civil staffs attended the missions, as well as observation of international humanitarian law norms during the operation”.
The draft law was adopted after the discussions.
The parliament also discussed and adopted amendments and annexes to the Convention on “Establishing the Customs Cooperation Council”, laws on “State Dactylographic Registration in Azerbaijan”, “Courts and Judges”, “municipality service”, “Prosecuting organizations”, “Official statistics”, “Labor pensions”, “Notariat”, “Lawyers and their activity”, “Status of municipality member”, “Remittal of income tax for banks and other credit organizations for payment of percents of the citizens’ savings”, “Public service”, “Service in prosecuting organizations” and “Service in justice organizations”.
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