Foreign Minister Departs to Prague
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov departed to the Czech Republic to take part at the meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of V4 (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) and Eastern Partnership to be held in Prague on May 4, 2016.
At the meeting Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will deliver a speech and on the sidelines will hold a number of bilateral meetings.
The program Eastern Partnership involves Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. -06D-
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