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Azerbaijan’s PM holds several meetings as part of opening ceremony of WUF13

Baku, May 18, AZERTAC

As part of the opening ceremony of the 13th Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF13) in Baku, Azerbaijan’s Prime Minister Ali Asadov held bilateral meetings with a number of high-level guests.

These included His Majesty King Mswati III of the Kingdom of Eswatini; Dharambeer Gokhool, President of the Republic of Mauritius; Irakli Kobakhidze, Prime Minister of Georgia; Olzhas Bektenov, Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Constantino Chiwenga, Vice President of the Republic of Zimbabwe; Oleksii Kuleba, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine; and Tomáš Taraba, Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic.

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