POLITICS
Embassy of Venezuela opens in Azerbaijan
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Baku, March 31, AZERTAC
The Venezuelan Embassy has opened in Azerbaijan, press service of Azerbaijan`s Foreign Ministry has told AZERTAC.
The newly appointed Charge d`Affaires of the Venezuelan Embassy in Azerbaijan, Pedro Argenis Sanchez Flores, met with head of the Department of State Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Parvin Mirzazade to hand him a letter of the Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza Montserrat on the opening of the Embassy addressed to Azerbaijani FM Elmar Mammadyarov.
Welcoming Venezuela`s decision to open an embassy in Azerbaijan, Mirzazade noted that it will contribute to the development of relations between the two countries.
They also discussed the preparations for a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to be held in Baku on April 3-6, as well as the issue of transfer of presidency of the organization from Venezuela to Azerbaijan in 2019.