Annexes will be made to the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan regarding news applied in the legislation on giving up and acquisition of Azerbaijani citizenship. According to Azerbaijani Parliament, the annexes are related to annexes and amendments made to the Law of the Azerbaijan Republic on Citizenship recently.

A new article will be annexed to the Criminal Code in connection with the annex “If Azerbaijani citizen does not inform the relevant body about acquisition of citizenship of a foreign state in the written form within a month, he/she will bear responsibility in accordance with the Criminal Code” made to the article #10. According to this annex, if the Azerbaijani citizen who acquired citizenship of a foreign state does not inform his/her country about it within a month, he/she will be fined and punished by imprisonment for 2 years.

The annex made to the Criminal Code will be discussed at the autumn session of the parliament.