AzerTag, Azerbaijan
March 23 2005

AMBASSADOR OF AZERBAIJAN IN MOSCOW MEETS WITH AMBASSADOR OF SLOVENIA
IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION
[March 23, 2005, 20:32:20]

On March 23, the ambassador of Azerbaijan in Moscow, the doyen of the
diplomatic corps Ramiz Rizayev has met the new ambassador of Slovenia
in Russia of Andrey Benedeichich, who, before appointment as the head
of mission of the country in Moscow held the post of proxy
minister-deputy head of permanent mission of Slovenia at OSCE in
Vienna.

During conversation, the Azerbaijan diplomat has informed his Slovene
colleague on features of the diplomatic protocol in Russia, current
socio-economic and political situation in the host country, also
about the condition of the Azerbaijan -Russian relations. Special
accent has been made on strategic character of the said relations,
positive changes of their development in economic, humanitarian and
political spheres.

The ambassador of Slovenia, in turn, has noted that his country,
since this year being chairman of OSCE, in the new quality would
actively promote settlements of the Armenia-Azerbaijan,
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Thus, the diplomat has stated that during the forthcoming April visit
of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia to Baku, alongside
with problems of strengthening of the Slovenia-Azerbaijan mutual
relations, also will be focused the questions connected to
intermediary activity of his country in this mentioned problem.

During the meeting, also discussed were other questions representing
mutual interest.