Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will visit Seoul next week for talks with his
South Korean counterpart on expanding bilateral ties, the foreign ministry said Friday.
During his two-day visit starting Tuesday, Mammadyarov will meet with South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan to discuss practical ways to boost cooperation in trade, investment, energy and culture, and assess recent developments on the Korean Peninsula, the ministry said.
Mammadyarov will also pay courtesy calls to National Assembly Speaker Park Hee-tae and Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik and tour the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul.
"The visit is taking place at the invitation of our minister to promote further exchanges between high-level officials of the two countries," said a ministry official.
On his previous visit to Seoul in 2005, the top Azerbaijani diplomat agreed with South Korea's then Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon to
open embassies in each other's countries. The two sides established diplomatic ties in 1992, one year after the Central Asian nation regained its independence from the former Soviet Union.