President of the International Committee of the Red Cross visits Baku

As Trend reports, after Azerbaijan he will visit Georgia and Armenia. Kellenberg's visit to the Caucasus will be over April 7.

Kellenberg plans to meet the Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliyev, the Vice President and Head of the State commission on humanitarian aid, Ali Hasanov in the course of his visit.

Besides, a number of meetings is planned to be held in the Foreign Ministry, National Security, Defense, Justice and Health ministries. He will also observe the work of the Azerbaijani Red Crescent society and visit refugee camp in Sabirabad.

The Red Cross program realization in Azerbaijan details will be reviewed during the visit. The major topics would be – persons disappeared during the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, international law teaching in the armed forces of Azerbaijan and tuberculosis treatment program in Azerbaijan.

This will be the first regional visit of Jakob Kellenberger. The last visit of the previous Head of the international committee was in 1995.

Red Cross committee works in Azerbaijan since 1992.