Latvian President Egils Levits will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan on March 8, Azernews reports.

The president of Latvia will hold a number of bilateral meetings in Baku and take part in the Global Baku Forum slated to be held in the Azerbaijani capital on March 9-11.

The X Global Baku Forum will be conducted under the title "World Today: Challenges and Hopes".

The forum will discuss issues of energy security, the relevance of transport corridors in the Eurasian space, the role of China in global development, etc.