Bilateral meetings were held during a working visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina, by a delegation led by Azerbaijan’s Prosecutor General Kamran Aliyev. The delegation met with Argentina’s Federal Prosecutor General Eduardo Casal and Martín López Zavaleta, Attorney General of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
The Prosecutor General’s Office provided the information to Operative Information Center-OMM.
During the meeting with Federal Prosecutor General Eduardo Casal, Kamran Aliyev said Azerbaijan attaches particular importance to developing relations with Argentina on the basis of mutual respect and the principles of international law.
He noted that, under the successful and multifaceted foreign policy pursued by President Ilham Aliyev, key priorities include strengthening Azerbaijan’s international standing, expanding the range of its partnerships, deepening political, economic and legal ties with different regions, and fostering relations between states and peoples based on mutual trust and mutually beneficial cooperation. In this regard, expanding cooperation with Latin American countries, including Argentina, is important.
The Prosecutor General briefed his counterpart on reforms to strengthen the fight against corruption and other forms of transnational crime in Azerbaijan, as well as to modernize the work of prosecutorial authorities.
The bilateral meeting addressed ways to improve the effectiveness of mutual legal assistance in criminal cases, expedite requests for legal assistance, obtain evidence, coordinate between competent authorities on the extradition of people who have committed crimes, and other current issues in international legal cooperation.
The sides also exchanged views on sharing experience in non-criminal proceedings and prospects for joint efforts to combat corruption, money laundering and other manifestations of modern crime.
In this context, they highlighted the role of prominent organizations such as the International Association of Prosecutors in improving mutual legal assistance and coordinating efforts to combat transnational crime. They also discussed cooperation within the Ibero-American Association of Public Prosecutors, which is headed by Argentina’s Prosecutor General. At a bilateral meeting that day with Martín López Zavaleta, Attorney General of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Kamran Aliyev welcomed the established cooperation between the two institutions and said the agreement on cooperation to prevent and combat corruption, signed in Buenos Aires on September 18, 2019, had played an important role in developing relations.
They also noted that the Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation signed on March 23, 2023, in Athens, Greece, between the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires had further strengthened the legal basis of the existing partnership.
At both meetings, the participants stressed the importance of further developing direct professional contacts between the two countries’ prosecutorial authorities, arranging reciprocal expert visits and joint training, and sharing best practices in criminal investigations.
They also discussed continuing cooperation through international and regional organizations, including the International Association of Prosecutors.
The participants exchanged views on other matters of mutual interest.
Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to Argentina, Ramzi Teymurov, also attended the meetings.
