Duties of the Department of Agreements are as follows:
a) To perform the works necessary for concluding and amending the bilateral agreements with other countries regarding the issues falling within the Ministry’s field of responsibility and to ensure coordination among the Ministry’s Central Organization, affiliated and related institutions in respect thereof,
b) To perform the works necessary for becoming a party to the multilateral agreements on the issues falling within the Ministry’s field of responsibility in accordance with the views of the Department of International Organizations,
c) To review the agreements, memoranda of understanding, protocols, intention declarations and instruments alike, which are not specified as international agreements and which are to be concluded between the Ministry’s Central Organization along with its affiliated, related institutions and their foreign interlocutors and to generate views with regard to these instruments,
d) To receive views of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other related public institutions and organizations on the agreements, memoranda of understanding, protocols and instruments alike, which are concerned with the issues falling within the Ministry’s field of responsibility and whose studies for being concluded are undertaken by the Ministry,
e) To prepare the information to be submitted to General Directorate concerning all kinds of bilateral agreements between the two countries or ministries on the issues falling within the Ministry’s field of responsibility, for which ongoing studies have been undertaken, so that they are concluded or amended,
f) To review the draft agreements on social security, workforce and cooperation, to generate considerations regarding these drafts and to submit them to General Directorate,
g) To perform the works to be performed by General Directorate for concluding the agreements aimed at enhancing cooperation between the two countries or ministries with regard to the issues falling within the Ministry’s field of responsibility,
h) To carry out the procedures and transactions on social security, workforce and cooperation agreements in regard to their negotiations with the ministry, institutions or organizations as interlocutors of the other country.
i) To perform the works for the amendment of current social security, workforce and cooperation agreements,
j) To perform the works necessary for signing the agreements negotiated, regarding the issues falling within the Ministry’s field of responsibility, including steps taken by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for obtainment of authorization to sign,
k) To perform the works to be undertaken by the Ministry, which is required to initiate the internal ratification process and complete the enforcement procedures related to agreements signed on the issues falling within the Ministry’s field of responsibility,
l) To transmit the information on agreements signed and agreements duly enforced to the Department for Missions Abroad and Strategy to be processed in Data Bank; as for the agreements in force, to transmit relevant information to the Department of Training and Publications for storage in the Documentation Centre,
m) To ensure coordination among the Ministry’s Central Organization, affiliated and related institutions so as to review and generate views on the agreements including provisions regarding the issues falling within the Ministry’s field of responsibility, whose works for being concluded are performed by other Ministries or Institutions,
n) To prepare a follow-up chart concerning the agreements with ongoing processes of negotiation and ratification and to regularly update the developments,
o) To meet the demands for views on the agreements to be concluded by other institutions and organizations, to generate views regarding the agenda of meetings held by “Joint Economic Commission” and “High-Level (Strategic) Cooperation Council” and to attend the meetings when necessary,
p) To contribute to the works coordinated by the Department for Services for Citizens Abroad with a view to safeguarding the rights and interests of our citizens living abroad or of those having made absolute return to our country, arising from working life abroad, social security and international law,
q) To contribute to the country files to be prepared by Private Bureau with regard to overseas visits to be paid by the Minister and Senior Executive and reception of foreign delegations,
r) To perform other tasks assigned by the General Directorate.