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Speaker of Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova visits the Vatican

Baku, May 17, AZERTAC

On May 17, a parliamentary delegation led by the Speaker of the Milli Majlis, Sahiba Gafarova, made a working visit to the Vatican to attend the official inauguration ceremony of Pope Leo XIV.

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