Azerbaijan appoints new deputy FM
BAKU – Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree appointing Nadir Huseynov as deputy foreign minister, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry reported.
Earlier, Huseynov led the ministry’s Consular Department.
He replaces Vagif Sadikhov, who was appointed as Azerbaijan's new ambassador to Italy.
Huseynov also supervised the ministry's information, human resources and retraining, monetary and financial, history and archives, legal support, language unit, and ministry and foreign mission relations departments, as well as the UNESCO Azerbaijani National Commission Secretariat.
Huseynov was born in 1960 in Ganja. In 1983, he graduated from the Kiev State University's International Relations and International Law Faculty. In 1983-1992, Huseynov worked as an auditor of the Cabinet of Ministers' Council of Foreign Tourism. In 1992-1998, he worked in the Foreign Ministry's State Protocol Department. He headed the Consular Department from 1998.
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