Mukhtar Mammadov
Baku/30.12.22/Turan: According to reports in the social networks, Mukhtar Mammadov, who served as Deputy Minister of Science and Education, has been appointed as Azerbaijan's first Ambassador to Israel.
However, the head of state's order on the appointment has not been published yet.
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry failed to get a comment.
At present, Deputy Foreign Minister Fariz Rzayev is in Israel to solve organizational issues arising from the opening of Azerbaijan's Embassy in Tel Aviv.
As for Mukhtar Mammadov, he was born in 1983. He worked in the system of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the Azerbaijani Embassy in Belgium and in the Ministry of Education. -02D-
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