Deputy Prime Minister Nicu Popescu, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, is paying a visit to the Republic of Azerbaijan on February 8-10, at the invitation of his Azeri counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov, IPN reports.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, the program of the visit includes meetings with the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Minister of Agriculture Inam Karimov, co-chairperson of the Moldovan-Azeri intergovernmental commission for commercial and economic cooperation, and chairman of the Management Board of the Small and Medium Business Development Agency of Azerbaijan Orkhan Mammadov,.

On February 9, after the plenary meeting of the delegations of the two states, Foreign Affairs Ministers Nicu Popescu and Jeyhun Bayramov will give a news conference to present the results of the discussions. The news conference will be broadcast live on the Facebook page of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration starting at 10:45am.