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Azerbaijan, UAE sign document on cooperation for combating human trafficking

22 March 2011 13:08 (UTC +04:00)

The meeting was held in the atmosphere of friendship and mutual understanding, press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan told APA.

The ministers emphasized the development of bilateral relations between Azerbaijan and the United Arab Emirates in the political, economic, humanitarian, scientific, technology, healthcare, education, culture and tourism fields.

Minister Mammadyarov said Azerbaijan attached great importance to the relations with the Arab world and the development of relations with the Arab countries was in the focus of attention of the country’s leadership.
He said Azerbaijan was interested in the cooperation with the League of Arab States and the Gulf Cooperation Council and UAE’s support to our efforts in this field is important.

Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan highly appreciated the stand of Azerbaijan in peaceful solution to the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno Karabakh conflict and said UAE supported Azerbaijan to be nominated for non-permanent membership of the UN Security Council. Sheikh Al Nahyan thanked Azerbaijan for permit to open the UAE’s embassy in Azerbaijan and said they would appoint the ambassador in a short time.

In the end of the meeting, a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation for combating human trafficking was signed between the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan and the UAE National Committee To Combat Human Trafficking .