Top Azerbaijani official: all states should unite their endeavors against terrorism

Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 14

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At least on countering terrorism every single state should put its other interests away, tweeted Novruz Mammadov, deputy head of Azerbaijani presidential administration, chief of the administration's foreign relations department.

He also expressed deep condolences to the families of the dead in the recent Paris terror attacks.

"I extend my deepest condolences to the families of those who'd been killed and wish a quick recovery to those who's injured, Mammadov said. "Hundreds of people have been killed and injured as a result of brutal terror attacks in Paris."

Mammadov noted that terrorism is one of the major threats for all countries, and at least to eliminate this threat all states should unite their endeavors.

Gunmen and bombers attacked restaurants, a concert hall and a sports stadium at locations across Paris Nov.13, killing at least 120 people in a deadly rampage that President Francois Hollande called an unprecedented terrorist attack.

Four gunmen systematically slaughtered at least 87 young people attending a rock concert at the Bataclan music hall.

Some 40 more people were killed in five other attacks in the Paris region, including an apparent double suicide bombing outside the national stadium, where the French president Hollande and the German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier were watching a friendly soccer international. Some 200 people were injured.