The treaty of friendship, cooperation and mutual safety between the Russian Federation and the Azerbaijan Republic

of July 3, 1997

The Russian Federation and the Azerbaijan Republic which further are referred to as with High contracting parties

relying on historically developed bonds, friendship and traditions of kind communication between the people,

considering that further development of the relations of friendship, neighborliness and mutually beneficial cooperation between them is equitable to radical interests of the people of both states and serves cause of peace and safety,

the full of determination to build democratic constitutional states in the territories,

confirming the commitment to the purposes and the principles of Articles of organization of the United Nations, the Helsinki Final act and other documents of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe,

confirming the commitment to observance of the conventional international standards in the field of human rights,

strengthening the contractual legal basis of the bilateral relations,

aiming to lift the bilateral relations to qualitatively new level,

agreed as follows:

Article 1

High contracting parties will develop the relations as the friendly, equal and sovereign states on the basis of trust, strategic partnership and full cooperation. They shall be guided steadily by the principles of mutual respect of their state sovereignty and independence, equality and non-interference to internal affairs of each other, nonuse of force or threat of force, including economic and different ways of pressure, territorial integrity, inviolability of borders, peaceful settlement of disputes, respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms, fair accomplishment of obligations, and also other universally recognized norms of international law.

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