Baku/31.08.23/Turan: Azerbaijani Presidential aide Hikmet Hajiyev and representatives of more than 50 Embassies of foreign countries and international organisations arrived in Agdam on 31 August.
They went to the peacekeepers' post on the Agdam-Khankandi road, where Red Crescent vehicles with 40 tonnes of flour are waiting for passage to Karabakh.
Among the diplomats are representatives of the Embassies of: Turkey, PRC, Russia, Japan, Switzerland, Israel, Poland, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, South Korea, Indonesia, Israel, UAE, Algeria, Qatar, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Libya, Palestine, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Georgia, Tajikistan, as well as missions of the UN, WHO, Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic States, etc.
Note that representatives of the Embassies of France, USA, UK, Germany and the EU Mission were absent among the diplomats. -21В06-
Politics
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