Baku / 25.12.17 / Turan: The California-Azerbaijan Friendship Association has been established by the local Azerbaijani community in the US state of California.
The Association reports that the structure was established at a meeting with 200 guests in Los Angeles on December 20.
Along with the representatives of the Azerbaijani community, California senators, mayors of cities, members of city councils, diplomats, famous scientists, as well as leaders of Turkish, Jewish, Pakistani, Iranian, Korean, Vietnamese and Latin communities took part in the event.
As the executive director of the association Kimia Mammadova said, the structure unites all Azerbaijanis from the Azerbaijan Republic and South Azerbaijan and intends to promote the strengthening of relations between California and Azerbaijan.
Congratulatory messages on the occasion of the establishment of the Association came from the head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the US House of Representatives Ed Royce, members of the Senate and Assembly of the State of California, etc. -06D--
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