Athens to host Greece-Azerbaijan Intergovernmental Committee meeting in October

The next meeting of the Greek-Azerbaijani Joint Intergovernmental Committee will be held in Athens in October, according to a statement by the Greek Embassy in Baku, Report informs.

The Ambassador of Greece, Maria Papakonstantinou, met with the Chairman of the Board of the Association of Travel Agencies of Azerbaijan, Goydaniz Gahramanov.

"In this respect, the importance of the launch of direct Baku-Heraklion flights for a second consecutive year by AZAL was particularly highlighted," reads the statement.

"The ambassador of Greece underscored the very positive current momentum in bilateral tourism relations, in view of the upcoming meeting of the Greece–Azerbaijan Joint Intergovernmental Committee to be held in Athens in October," the embassy said.