Drug and firearms law in Azerbaijan: statutes on record and in force

Azerbaijan, in Central Asia, is party to all four of the instruments tracked here, the last of them since 2005. It appears on neither FATF list. Its legislation on record runs to 3 confirmed instruments. The dates below are the depositary's; the instruments, where any are named, are the register's.

Tile cartogram of the covered jurisdictions with Azerbaijan picked out — Fig. — Azerbaijan in the covered set of 106 source and transit jurisdictions.

International framework

Azerbaijan is bound by all four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 1993 and the most recent from 2005.

Instrument	Adopted	Ratified or acceded	Depositary reference
1988 Convention	1988	22 Sep 1993	Chapter VI-19
UNTOC	2000	30 Oct 2003	Chapter XVIII-12
UNCAC	2003	1 Nov 2005	Chapter XVIII-14
Firearms Protocol	2001	3 Dec 2004	Chapter XVIII-12-c

What each instrument obliges a party to do is set out once, per instrument, in the conventions reference. The dates above are what is specific to Azerbaijan: they are the points from which each obligation began to bind, taken from the depositary's own status tables.

National legislation

The following instruments have been confirmed against a citable national source. Titles are given as enacted and are not translated.

Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the Control of Illicit — A principal instrument in its own right, confirmed on the register named below; its subject matter is not stated on the face of its title. Confirmed against the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.

Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan On the Control of Illicit Trafficking — A principal instrument in its own right, confirmed on the register named below; its subject matter is not stated on the face of its title. Confirmed against the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs, checked 2026-07-30.

The Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan has been amended on changing — An amending instrument, so the operative wording is the amended text of the act it alters rather than anything freestanding. Confirmed against nmdk.gov.az, checked 2026-07-30.

Enforcement authorities

One body is named in the record for Azerbaijan, each confirmed on Azerbaijan's own government domain. A named body is not the same as an operative one, but it establishes where the mandate sits — and a mandate no institution holds is the gap that treaty coverage cannot close.

Body	Function	Confirmed on
Ministry of Internal Affairs	policy and oversight	mia.gov.az

Ratification sequence

A count of four tells you less than the sequence that produced it. Azerbaijan came to these instruments over 12 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 1993 and ending with the UNCAC in 2005. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the UNCAC at 2 years, the longest the 1988 Convention at 5.

Azerbaijan became a party to the 1988 Convention in 1993, 5 years after it was adopted — exactly the median lag across the jurisdictions in this dataset.

The intervals below are where the obligations were partial rather than complete. For the 10 years between 1993 and 2003, Azerbaijan was bound by the 1988 Convention but not yet by the UNTOC, the Firearms Protocol or the UNCAC. Nothing in the later instruments reaches back into that window, which is why a complete position today says little about a case from then.

On coverage, Azerbaijan is one of 81 jurisdiction s here party to 4 of the four, against 81 party to all four. Within Central Asia the dataset holds 10 jurisdictions, of which 0 are currently under FATF increased monitoring.

Financial-crime monitoring

As of the FATF plenary statements of 2026-06-19, Azerbaijan is recorded as Not listed . The two statements are issued together and read together, because a jurisdiction named in the second is not on the first. How the plenary reaches these decisions is covered on the FATF grey list tracker.

Questions about drug and firearms law in Azerbaijan

Which drug-control conventions has Azerbaijan ratified?

All four: the 1988 Convention on 22 Sep 1993, the UNTOC on 30 Oct 2003, the UNCAC on 1 Nov 2005, the Firearms Protocol on 3 Dec 2004.

Is Azerbaijan on the FATF grey list?

No. Azerbaijan appears on neither the increased-monitoring list nor the call-for-action list in the FATF statements of 19 June 2026.

What national drug legislation is on record for Azerbaijan?

Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the Control of Illicit, confirmed against the UNODC legal library; Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan On the Control of Illicit Trafficking, confirmed against the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs; The Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan has been amended on changing, confirmed against nmdk.gov.az.

Which register confirms the legislation on this page?

Each instrument names its own. For Azerbaijan that is the UNODC legal library, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs, nmdk.gov.az. Each link resolves to the register's own copy, not to a summary of it.

What is source tier A, and why is this record in it?

Tier A means a national instrument has been confirmed against an official register — for Azerbaijan, 3 of them. The treaty dates and the listing status are separately sourced, so all three layers of this record carry a citation.

Why does the ratification date matter?

The date is the point from which the obligations bind. Azerbaijan's earliest of these commitments dates from 1993, its most recent from 2005; the gap between them is a rough measure of how long the framework took to assemble.

Sources

Ratification dates: United Nations Treaty Collection, depositary status tables (chapters VI-19, XVIII-12, XVIII-14, XVIII-12-c). Checked 2026-07-29.
Listing status: FATF, Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring and High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action, 2026-06-19.
Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the Control of Illicit: the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.
Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan On the Control of Illicit Trafficking: the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs, checked 2026-07-30.
The Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan has been amended on changing: nmdk.gov.az, checked 2026-07-30.