U.S. Ambassador visits Nakhchivan
On October 31, U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Richard Morningstar, and his wife arrived in Nakhchivan. According to the regional correspondent from Turan, the Ambassador was received by Vasif Talibov, the head of the Supreme Majlis,.
The Ambassador also visited the office of the NGO and Democracy Support Resource Center, a community support center, where finance and İREX USİAD is located.
During the dinner the political situation in Nakhchivan was discussed, to which the ambassador had invited local human rights activists, Malahat and Ilgar Nasibov, as well as Elmana Abbasov,. -23В-
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