Regional Training Center of the World Customs Organization
On 30 January 2002 Memorandum of Understanding between the World Customs Organization and the State Customs
Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan regarding the Establishment of a World Customs Organization Regional
Training Center in Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan. Its opening took place on 30 September 2003 with the
participation of the WCO Secretary General Mr. Michel Danet.
With training capacity of 50 persons it has modernly equipped conference hall, classrooms,
library, hotel-type hostel, sports room and stadium, swimming-pool, bar, shop, hairdresser’s and other services.
16.06.2007 GUAM Secretariat in Kyiv hosted the UNODC Workshop on Nuclear Terrorism The experts informed the participants of the Workshop on recent developments in global counter-terrorism legal framework, the UN instruments in the area of international legal cooperation in countering terrorism, the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and other legal aspects of nuclear security, practical issues in the area of international cooperation related to mutual legal assistance and extradition, the human rights aspects of international cooperation in combating terrorism, lessons learned and obstacles encountered in this area, and Illicit Trafficking Database (ITDB).
16.06.2007 Meeting of the Working Group on Combating Terrorism The meeting was held under the presidency of a new Chairman of the WGCTOC, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia Mr. Georgiy Lordkipanidze with the participation also of Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan Mr. Vilayat Eyvazov, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Mr. Vasiliy Marmazov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Moldova Mr. Nikolay Gumenny, and GUAM Secretary General Ambassador Valery Chechelashvili.
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