Foreign Ministry: Azerbaijan is ready to accept UNESCO mission on liberated territories

“To continue telephone conversation of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, with the Director General of UNESCO Azul, in recent months between Azerbaijan and UNESCO, a number of meetings in video conference format were held.” This was reported by journalists by the head of the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Leila Abdullayev.

“during the last meeting, held on June 21, 2021, the Azerbaijani side once again emphasized the readiness to take the mission of UNESCO and called on the organization to speed up this process. In particular, discussions were held on the visit of the UNESCO mission to the Agdam and Fizulinsky districts liberated from occupation. And the city of Shusha.

In addition, I want to note that as a result of the discussions conducted between the Azerbaijani Party and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, an agreement was reached on the implementation of the mission of the Commissariat for Refugees in Azerbaijan affected by the conflict. Azerbaijan is fully ready to adopt the Mission of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Currently, we expect a response from both organizations to complete the work related to the visit, “L.Abdullayeva noted.