Foreign Ministry comments on MNS officials working at diplomatic missions abroad

  21 October 2015    Read: 1057
Foreign Ministry comments on MNS officials working at diplomatic missions abroad
In accordance with international diplomatic practice and the level of interstate cooperation, involvement in diplomatic missions of officials from other state agencies is normal, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hikmat Hajiyev told, commenting on some officials of the National Security Ministry involved in Azerbaijan’s diplomatic missions abroad.

Depending upon the nature and level of bilateral cooperation, according to him, representatives of the Defense Ministry, the Interior Ministry, the Special State Security Center, the State Customs Committee and the Ministry of National Security can be represented in diplomatic missions.

“On the basis of the principle of mutuality, officials of different authorities of foreign countries serve in those countries’ diplomatic missions to Azerbaijan,” he said.

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