Azeri FM off to U.S. to attend UN session
BAKU – Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has left for the United States to attend the 65th session of the UN General Assembly, Foreign Ministry spokesman Elkhan Polukhov said.
The UN GA session will open in New York on Thursday. Mammadyarov is expected to address participants.
Robert Bradtke, the US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group mediating settlement to the Upper (Nagorno) Karabakh conflict, recently told BBC Radio that the Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers are due to meet in New York.
The next ministerial of GUAM, a group of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova, is due on the sidelines of the UN GA session.
Foreign ministers of the Organization for Islamic Conference (OIC) member states are scheduled to meet as well. Discussions will focus on joint efforts to resolve problems faced by the Islamic countries, as well as the situation in Pakistan, Iraq and Somali.
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