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Top Turkish diplomat greets new Azerbaijani counterpart

‘We will continue to work with one nation, two states understanding,’ says Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu

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09:40 - 17/07/2020 Friday
Update: 09:49 - 17/07/2020 Friday
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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu

The Turkish foreign minister on Thursday congratulated his newly appointed Azerbaijani counterpart.


"I congratulate the new Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov and wish him success in his post. We will continue to work with one nation, two states understanding," Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Twitter.


Bayramov, 47, who had been serving as education minister since April 2018, has been appointed to the post in line with the decree of Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev.


The president spoke to Bayramov via videoconference amid his new appointment.


The longtime Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov was dismissed from his position in the wake of the border conflict with Armenia, which escalated on Sunday.

The sacking of Mammadyarov, who had been on the post since 2004, came a day after Aliyev publicly criticized him at a government session for his approach on dealing with the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict.

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#Jeyhun Bayramov
#Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
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