The National Security Ministry is actively cooperating with 51 intelligence agencies of 40 countries.
The National Security Ministry rendered harmless 25 persons engaged in spying against Azerbaijan at the order of foreign intelligence agencies, Deputy National Security Minister, Major-General Ali Shafiyev said at the conference "The role of youth in ensuring national security" held at the Baku Slavic University on the occasion of the 91st anniversary of the Azerbaijani national security bodies.
The ministry's public affairs center said that the deputy minister stressed the successive measures taken to increase the efficiency of the struggle against terrorism and aggressive separatism supported by aggressor Armenia on the highest level.
As a result of the measures taken against the international terrorism, the attempts of terror attacks were prevented. A number of extremist groups having links to Al-Qaeda and Al-Jihad were rendered harmless.
Shafiyev noted that last year the ministry carried out successful operations against transnational organized crimes. A lot of organized gangs and individuals engaged in illicit drug turnover were detained, over a ton of drugs was removed from the illicit turnover, about 100 were held accountable.
Giving information about the ministry's international relations, Ali Shafiyev said measures taken against the terrorist, provocative activity of the foreign intelligence agencies, international terrorism, illicit drug turnover and transnational organized crimes increase Azerbaijan's influence and the interest of other partners to extend the relations with the National Security Ministry.
According to him, the National Security Ministry is actively cooperating with 51 intelligence agencies of 40 countries.
APA