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Asgarova Matanat Pasha
Criminal Procedure and Forensic Aspects of Mutual Legal Assistance between States in Criminal
Matters: Experience of Ukraine and the Republic of Azerbaijan
the eld of police education and training, joint investigative measures based
on cooperation in the ght against various types of transnational crime,
illicit tracking in drugs, psychotropic substances, weapons, terrorism,
human tracking, illegal migration, smuggling (Azerbaijan in the world
community, 2021).
Within the framework of such international and regional organizations
as OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe),
“Organization for Democracy and Economic Development - GUAM” NATO
(North Atlantic Treaty Organization), BSEC (Organization of the Black Sea
Economic Cooperation), ECO (Organization of Economic Cooperation) OIC
(Organization of Islamic Conference), CIS (Commonwealth of Independent
States) special attention is paid to activities of the Ministry of Interior of the
Azerbaijan Republic in this direction (Azerbaijan in the world community,
2021).
As for Ukraine, the basis for international cooperation in criminal
matters are acting bilateral and multilateral treaties, consent to the binding
of which was conrmed by the Supreme Council of Ukraine in the prescribed
manner. Bilateral agreements allow considering more fully the nature of
relations between the two states, their interests on each specic issue.
In this regard, the most widespread are bilateral agreements on such
issues as avoidance of double taxation, legal assistance in tax cases, legal
assistance in criminal proceedings, extradition of oenders, transfer of
convicted persons to serve the sentence in the country of which they are
citizens, etc.
Among the multilateral treaties we should mention the European
conventions on criminal proceedings, which are important both for the
Republic of Azerbaijan and Ukraine, namely: European Convention on
Extradition of Oenders and its two additional protocols (European
Convention on the Extradition of Oenders, 1957), the European Convention
on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters with an additional protocol
to it , European Convention on the Transfer of Proceedings in Criminal
Matters (European Convention on the Transfer of Proceedings in Criminal
Matters, 1972), Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons and
its Protocol (Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons, 1983),
European Convention on the Supervision of Probationers and Parolees
(European Convention on the Supervision of Conditionally Sentenced,
1964), Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Conscation of
Proceeds from Crime (Convention on Laundering, 1990), in addition, it
is necessary to mention the European Convention on the international
recognition of judgments in criminal cases (European Convention on the
international recognition of judgments in criminal cases, 1970).