Baku declaration of heads of the Turkic-speaking states

of April 8, 2000

The president of the Azerbaijan Republic Heydar Aliyev, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of the Kyrgyz Republic Askar Akayev, the President of the Republic of Turkey Süleyman Demirel, the Chairman of Majlis of Turkmenistan Sakhat Muradov and the Chairman of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan Erkin Khalilov held on April 8, 2000 in the city of Baku the Sixth Summit.

Heads of states,

- emphasizing the high level of friendly, equal and mutually beneficial relations in all spheres of interstate cooperation and proceeding from community of history, language and culture;

- aiming at strengthening of political and economic safety of the states on the basis of the principles of respect of independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability of frontiers, equality, non-interference to internal affairs of each other, refusal of use of force and threat of force, economic and any other methods of pressure, to growth in prosperity of the people, dynamic development of national economies on the basis of complete and effective use of natural resources;

- especially noting the initiative of Turkey of holding the First Meeting of heads of the Turkic-speaking states which laid the foundation of regular summits, confirming succession of the Ankara Statement of October 31, 1992, the Declarations adopted in Istanbul on October 19, 1994 in Bishkek on August 28, 1995, in Tashkent on October 21, 1996 and in Astana on June 9, 1998;

- expressing commitment to the purposes and the principles of the Charter of the UN, the Helsinki Final Act and Other fundamental documents of OSCE;

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

- entering the 21st century, emphasized need of giving of new impulse to mutually beneficial and equal cooperation;

- having considered condition of the relations and prospects of development of cooperation between the countries, having exchanged opinions on number of the international and regional problems,

declare:

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