The agreement on cooperation between the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan

of April 21, 2006

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan which further are referred to as "Party"

respecting sovereignty and independence of two states,

being guided by desire to develop and strengthen mutual cooperation,

concerned about rise in crime, especially its organized forms,

for the purpose of effective fight against drug traffic, terrorism, religious extremism,

considering the international obligations and national legal systems of both states,

being guided by the principles of equality,

proceeding from mutual desire to keep and develop professional bonds between law-enforcement bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Republic of Tajikistan,

agreed as follows:

Article 1

Each of the Parties within the competence provides protection of the rights and freedoms, legitimate interests and property of citizens and legal entities of the state of other Party.

Article 2

The parties on the basis of the current legislation of the states perform cooperation in the following main directions:

1) fight against crimes against life, health, advantage of the personality and property;

2) counteraction of illegal migration;

3) fight against crimes against sexual freedom and morality;

4) fight against human trafficking and illegal imprisonment of the person;

5) fight against theft and illegal trade in firearms, ammunition, explosives and other dangerous materials, and also their illegal manufacture;

6) fight against gangsterism, religious extremism, terrorism, international and organized crime;

7) fight against theft of any objects, in particular plunder and illicit trafficking in any movable, cultural and historical values, road media and their smuggling, and also illegal trade;

8) fight against counterfeit of money and securities, and also their issuance;

9) fight against forgery, and equally in their use as the authentic, proving the identity and other documents;

10) counteraction to financing of organized illegal activities, to legalization (washing) of income gained in the criminal way;

11) fight against illegal cultivation of the plants used for production of drugs and psychotropic substances, production of these means and their precursors, illegal conversion, transportation, smuggling and their turnover, and also turnover by the precursors and semi-products necessary for their production;

12) fight against other types of organized and other crime;

13) search of the criminals, persons who absconded court and serving sentence, missing persons, and also persons evading from payment of the alimony and execution of decisions of the courts in claims;

14) establishment of unknown corpses, the identity of the unknown patients and children, persons incapable to report about itself data, and mental patients;

15) fight against crimes on road, rail and air transport;

16) search of the objects and documents stolen during crime or used for its making.

Article 3

The parties, being guided by national legal systems of the states, within the competence perform cooperation in the following forms:

1) exchange of operational search, operational and help and criminalistic information on the preparing or committed crimes and involved in them to persons, about the emergencies and serious crimes having the international nature and also archive information;

2) approved, and if necessary and joint conducting investigation and search operations and legal proceedings, including development of the international criminal forming operating in the territory of two states;

3) assistance in search and return in accordance with the established procedure the stolen objects having numbers or specific distinctive signs including motor transport and firearms, and also securities, identity documents;

4) assistance in implementation of transit transportations of valuable and other cargoes, convoy and convoys;

5) work experience exchange, legislative and regulations, educational literature, methodical recommendations, benefits concerning activities of law-enforcement bodies, and also rendering on mutual basis of assistance in preparation, retraining advanced training of personnel in special educational institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs;

6) exchange of scientific and technical literature and information on questions of activities of law-enforcement bodies, joint carrying out scientific and criminalistic research, developments and programs for the problems which are of mutual interest;

7) development of sports and cultural ties.

Article 4

For the purpose of implementation of cooperation, stipulated in Article 2 this agreements, the Parties will be:

1) in necessary cases to exchange the information about the physical persons who committed crimes and also data:

a) about the initiators and persons leading criminal acts;

b) about criminal bonds between perpetrators of a crime;

c) about structures and the organization of criminal groups, and also methods of their actions;

d) typical behavior of certain criminals and criminal groups;

e) about essential circumstances of the crimes concerning time, the place, crime execution method, subject to criminal encroachment and special signs of suspects;

e) about actions and their results taken already;

2) at the initiative of other Party to undertake the relevant operational activities and together without delay to perform, earlier stipulated actions, especially those which concern carrying out cross-border observation, "controlled delivery", and also sending under confidential observation.

Article 5

The parties will exchange information and results of investigation on the planned or committed crimes against public safety and public order, information on method of action of the criminals, the extremist and terrorist groups planning or committing crime in damage of important interests of one of the Parties and also will take the collateral other actions caused by need of the prevention and suppression of religious extremism, terrorism.

Article 6

Proceeding from international legal obligations of the states in the field of rendering legal assistance on criminal cases and being guided by the national legal system, the Parties will give each other help in the way:

1) accomplishment of requests (orders) on criminal cases, cases of operational accounting and materials about administrative offenses;

2) carrying out legal proceedings;

3) search of the criminals, persons who absconded court and serving sentence, missing persons, and also persons evading from payment of the alimony and execution of decisions of the courts in claims;

4) transfers and issues of the objects which are the crime instrument, got in the criminal way or having traces of crimes.

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