Some 12 countries, including Azerbaijan attended the sixth International Sacred Music Festival "Samaa" dedicated to the International Day for Tolerance in Cairo, Egypt, the State Committee for Work with Diaspora said, AzerTag state news agency reported.

The attitude of various states to the overthrow of Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt by military means was ambiguous. The harshest criticism of the interim government established after the military coup, came from Turkey.

Egypt is interested in Azerbaijan's investments, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Egypt Shahin Abdullayev told Baku-based Trend news agency on October 23.

The Azerbaijani Embassy in Egypt will soon resume its normal activity, spokesman for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Elman Abdullayev told media.

The events in Egypt essentially have not affected Azerbaijani travel agencies' work, Advisor to the Chairman of Azerbaijan Tourism Association (ATA) Muzaffar Agakerimov said on August 21.

Georgian tour companies were forced to cancel trips to Egypt due to the riots in Egypt and their losses constituted about $500, 000, Radio Commersant reported with the reference to the Georgian Tourism Association.

A plane carrying evacuated Azerbaijani citizens from Cairo landed in Baku on August 19, the Azerbaijani embassy in Egypt told Trend.

The Council of Foreign Ministers of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States (CCTS) released a statement on the situation in Egypt on August 16.

Azerbaijan's Culture and Tourism Ministry urged Azerbaijani citizens not to travel to Egypt and tour companies to refrain from organizing tours to that country.

There are no Azerbaijani citizens among those injured in today's clashes in Egypt, the diplomatic mission told Trend on August 14.