Global Utah Weekly

(Salt Lake City) – On September 30 the World Trade Center Utah hosted His Excellency Elin Suleymanov, Consul General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles. Elin Suleymanov has served as Azerbaijan’ Consul General since 2005 and was appointed by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, as the first Consul General of Azerbaijan with personal rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. His Excellency has visited Utah on previous occasions and is familiar with the many great resources the State offers companies interested in international cooperation. During the meeting with representatives of the Utah business community, Consul Suleymanov shared his thoughts on trade and investment opportunities for collaboration between the regions as well as offered some highlights as to the current political situation in the region.

 

 

 

 

 

About Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, formally the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south. Azerbaijan, a nation with a majority Turkic and Shi‘ite Muslim population, is a secular and unitary republic. The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was the first successful attempt to establish a democratic and secular republic in the Muslim world. Azerbaijan is one of the founder members of GUAM and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and joined the Commonwealth of Independent States in September 1993. A Special Envoy of the European Commission is present in the country, which is also a member of the United Nations, the OSCE, the Council of Europe, and the NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) program. Population – 2009 estimate 8,832,000 – 1999 census 7,953,438 GDP (PPP) 2008 estimate – Total $74.856 billion