BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 20. The first
consular consultations between the Azerbaijani and Latvian foreign
ministries have been held in Riga, the statement of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan says, Trend reports.
The Azerbaijani delegation at the consultations was headed by
the head of the ministry's consular department, Emil Safarov, and
the Latvian delegation by the director general of the consular and
diplomatic facilities directorate of the ministry, Agnese
Kalnina.
The Latvian delegation also included representatives of the
border service, including the migration department of the
country.
The meeting was also attended by a representative of the
Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan.
The consular consultations reviewed the current state and
development prospects of cooperation in the consular field with
Latvia, a strategic partner country for Azerbaijan, including the
signing of new bilateral documents in the field and the possibility
of digitalizing consular services.
During the talks, the parties exchanged views on the prospects
for multilateral and bilateral cooperation in the fields of
justice, law enforcement, the prosecutor's office, migration, and
education, as well as consular affairs, and on expanding
relations.
Later, the delegation was received by Kaspars Abolins, Deputy
State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Latvia. The
meeting considered the issues of expanding relations between the
internal affairs bodies of the two countries and developing the
relevant contractual and legal framework.
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