BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 14. Azerbaijani
Ambassador to the Holy See Ilgar Mukhtarov offered his
credentials to Pope Francis, Head of the Roman Catholic Church,
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Ambassador conveyed the greetings of the President of Azerbaijan
Ilham Aliyev and First Vice-President Mehriban Aliyeva to Pope
Francis and invited the Pope to go to Azerbaijan. The ambassador
stated that relations between Azerbaijan and the Holy See, primarily based on
mutual respect, have gone a good distance in improvement over a
thirty-year interval.
Mukhtarov recalled the official visits of the President of
Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and First Vice-President Mehriban Aliyeva
to the Holy See throughout this era, in addition to the go to of Pope
Francis to Azerbaijan.
The opening of the Azerbaijani Embassy within the Holy See is an
indicator of the significance connected to bilateral relations, he
famous.
During the dialog, Pope Francis expressed gratitude for
the greetings and requested to convey greetings to President Ilham
Aliyev and First Vice President Mehriban Aliyeva. The Pope recalled
with satisfaction his go to to Azerbaijan in 2016 on the invitation
of President Ilham Aliyev and the assembly with representatives of
non secular communities throughout the go to. He famous that he was warmly
welcomed in Azerbaijan, and the go to to Azerbaijan left him
nice impressions.
The head of the Roman Catholic Church inquired in regards to the
state of affairs within the area. He harassed that Azerbaijan attaches
specific significance to the traditions of multiculturalism and
tolerance, in addition to the significance of the nation’s actions in
the course of selling interreligious and intercultural
dialogue.
Noting the efficient cooperation between the Holy See and the
Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Pope Francis stated that the restoration by
the Foundation of a variety of historic monuments of common
significance within the Vatican is a good job within the discipline of
defending cultural heritage. It was famous that these tasks
serve to guard the world cultural, historic and non secular
heritage, the event of intercultural and interreligious
relations.
The ambassador, in flip, stated that the tasks applied in
Vatican on the initiative of the First Vice-President of
Azerbaijan, President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban
Aliyeva, as soon as once more verify the standard function of Azerbaijan as a
nation dedicated to multicultural values and selling these
values.
Pope Francis requested the ambassador to convey honest greetings
and greatest needs to the folks of Azerbaijan.
At the assembly of Ilgar Mukhtarov with the Secretary of State of
the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, satisfaction was expressed
with the excessive degree of cooperation between Azerbaijan and the
Vatican. The significance of those relations from the perspective
of intercivilizational and interreligious dialogue, in addition to the
promotion of tolerance on this planet, was emphasised. The Ambassador
recalled that Cardinal Pietro Paroli acquired an invite to
go to Azerbaijan.
The Secretary of State of the Holy See requested the ambassador to
convey greetings to President Ilham Aliyev and First Vice-President
Mehriban Aliyeva and stated that he would go to Azerbaijan this
12 months.
