Iran, Azerbaijan discuss prisoner exchange deal
PRESS TV (Iran) Sun Apr 20, 2014 9:52AM GMT
http://presstv.com/detail/2014/04/20/359341/iran-azerbaijan-discuss-extradition-plan/

Iran and Azerbaijan have discussed ways of implementing a mutual agreement
on the extradition of prisoners.

The issue was discussed at a meeting between Iran’s Ambassador to Baku
Mohsen Pakayin and Azerbaijan’s Minister of Justice Fikrat Mammadov.

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

He also expressed Tehran’s readiness to plan for continuing the process.

The Iranian diplomat pointed to the visit by Azerbaijani President Ilham
Aliyev to Iran on April 9 and said that the visit heralded the outset of an
all-out transformation in the two nations’ relations.

Mammadov, for his part, hailed Aliyev’s visit to Iran as fruitful and
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/HJL