A delegation led by Co-Chair of the Azerbaijani-Latvian Intergovernmental Commission, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Mukhtar Babayev paid a working visit to Riga, Latvia to attend the 8th meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on Economic, Scientific, Technical and Cultural Cooperation between Azerbaijan and Latvia.

MENR told APA that during the visit, bilateral meetings with Latvian officials focused on trade and investment, science and education, tourism, culture, transport, innovation, agriculture and food security, energy, environmental protection and climate change. The issues of cooperation were discussed.

As a result of the meetings, the Protocol of the 8th meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission, the Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the field of food security between the Food Safety Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Food and Veterinary Service of the Republic of Latvia and the Bilateral Agreement on Cooperation in Environmental Protection -2023) Work Program signed.