Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct. 13 / Trend, S. Agayeva /
Ecuadorian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Integration Ricardo Patino Arouca will visit Azerbaijan.
The delegation headed by the Minister will arrive in Azerbaijan on October 18. He will meet with senior officials, the Embassy of Ecuador in Russia told Trend on Thursday.
The Ecuadorian minister will meet with President Aliyev and discuss the issues of world politics and strengthening Ecuadorian-Azerbaijani relations, a statement said.
Arouca will then meet with Azerbaijani businessmen, and hold talks with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov to discuss the issues of bilateral cooperation and the establishment of diplomatic relations at the highest level the same day.
Such important topics as political and commercial cooperation between the two countries, the role of Azerbaijan as a transit territory for the supply of Ecuadorian products to Central Asia, climate change, the Yasuní ITT initiative, the Commercial Code, the global financial crisis, the new international financial architecture, as well as the process of regional integration are planned to be discussed, the embassy said.
A number of agreements on the establishment of the Embassy of Ecuador in the Russian Federation with a concurrent Embassy of Ecuador in Azerbaijan, mutual abolition of visa regimes, the Protocol on Cooperation between the Foreign Ministries and the Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment of trade and economic integration (JETCO) will be signed.
The same evening, Arouca will meet with Minister of Economic Development Shahin Mustafayev. They will analyze Ecuador's major economic indices, motives for investment in the country, export supply and trade relations.
The Ecuadorian minister will meet with Prime Minister Artur Rasizade and discuss the issues of world politics.
Arouca will visit the main technological and industrial centers in the country and meet with representatives of the Azerbaijani authorities to discuss technical cooperation.