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Azerbaijan, Vatican discuss relations

03.04.2014 [13:51]
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Paris, April 3 (AZERTAC). Azerbaijan and the Vatican have discussed the bilateral relations as Ambassador to France and the Holy See visited the Vatican.

Amirbayov met President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, who recalled his visit to Azerbaijan in November last year. They discussed cooperation between Azerbaijan and the Vatican.

The Ambassador also met Archbishop Angelo Becciu, substitute of the Secretariat of State, to give him President Ilham Aliyev’s congratulatory letter for the Pope Francis on the anniversary of his election as the Head of the Roman Catholic Church.

During the visit, Amirbayov also held talks with Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for Relations with States, and handed him a letter of Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister inviting him to visit the country