UNHCR`s Assistant High Commissioner for Operations to pay official visit to Azerbaijan

Baku, November 29, AZERTAC UNHCR`s Assistant High Commissioner for Operations George William Okoth-Obbo will embark on an official visit to Azerbaijan. The aim of the two-day visit is to inspect the activity of the UNHCR office in Azerbaijan and the government`s work to address social problems of the refugees, IDPs and asylum seekers. The UNHCR delegation will hold meetings with Azerbaijan`s deputy Prime Minister, chairman of the State Committee for Refugees and IDPs Ali Hasanov, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, first deputy chief of the State Migration Service Vali Nagiyev and heads of the diplomatic corps. George William Okoth-Obbo will also meet with the refugees living in the dormitories in Baku and newly built settlements round the city, and get acquainted with the social and technical infrastructure. He will also visit the Refugee Woman and Youth Center under the UNHCR office in Baku and meet with refugees and asylum seekers.