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Azerbaijan diplomatic expansion and visa agreements

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2026-09-25 03:25 UTC → 2026-10-14 11:23 UTC · added removed

During the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, Azerbaijan engaged in several diplomatic efforts to expand its international connections through visa liberalization and high-level meetings. Initially, Azerbaijan and Colombia signed a bilateral agreement to eliminate visa requirements for ordinary passport holders to facilitate tourism, business, and academic exchanges. The implementation of this measure is pending the completion of formal diplomatic procedures procedures, including the exchange of passport specimens and verbal notes between the two respective foreign ministries. Azerbaijan further expanded these efforts by signing visa liberalization agreements with Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, and Benin. These The agreements cover various passport types, including with Saint Kitts and Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda include mutual exemptions for diplomatic, official, service, and service passports, ordinary passport holders, while the agreement with Benin focuses on diplomatic and service passport holders. In October, during the goal first official visit of promoting tourism Lao President Thongloun Sisoulith to Azerbaijan, the two nations adopted a Joint Declaration. This visit included the signing of documents to implement mutual visa waivers for service passport holders and interpersonal connections. aimed to expand cooperation in agriculture, energy, mining, transport, and education. Additionally, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Ceyhun Bayramov met with Iraqi officials Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein to discuss bilateral relations, regional stability in the Middle East East, and cooperation regarding the upcoming summits for Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Summit and the 7th Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. (CICA) scheduled to be held in Azerbaijan.

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