About Us

IMRA
IMRA
IMRA

 

Subscribe

Search


...................................................................................................................................................


Monday, April 21, 2014
'Azerbaijan to hand over 100 inmates to Iran'

'Azerbaijan to hand over 100 inmates to Iran'
Azerbaijan is going to hand over 100 Iranian detainees to the Islamic
Republic.
PRESSTV Mon Apr 21, 2014 4:47PM GMT
http://presstv.com/detail/2014/04/21/359511/baku-to-deliver-100-inmates-to-iran/

The Azeri ambassador to Iran says Azerbaijan plans to hand over 100 Iranian
detainees to the Islamic Republic.

In an interview with Mehr News Agency in the Iranian northwestern city of
Ardebil on Monday, Javanshir Akhundov said Baku will deliver the inmates as
part of a unilateral measure in the near future.

“The sentences of all the Iranian prisoners have been declared to the
officials of this country, and the decision for the release of 100 inmates
will be implemented in the coming weeks,” he said.

The Azeri diplomat also reaffirmed Baku’s determination to promote relations
with Tehran in economic, cultural and political spheres.

The announcement comes after a recent meeting between Iran’s Ambassador to
Baku Mohsen Pakayin and Azerbaijan’s Minister of Justice Fikrat Mammadov in
which the two sides discussed ways of implementing a mutual agreement on
extradition of prisoners.

Pakayin expressed gratitude for Azerbaijan’s positive view about the
immediate extradition of prisoners that led to the transfer of a number of
Iranian inmates to their country in mid-March.

Mammadov, for his part, expressed optimism that legal and judicial
cooperation between the two countries will create a backbone for mutual
ties.

He described the prisoner extradition program as a humanitarian measure and
expressed hope for the expedition of the relevant legal procedures.

ASH/HMV/SS

Search For An Article

....................................................................................................

Contact Us

POB 982 Kfar Sava
Tel 972-9-7604719
Fax 972-3-7255730
email:imra@netvision.net.il IMRA is now also on Twitter
http://twitter.com/IMRA_UPDATES

image004.jpg (8687 bytes)