BAKU (Reuters) – Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev sacked Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov on Thursday after criticising him for his stance over the fighting that broke out this week between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
According to the president’s decree, former education minister Jeikhun Bayramov was appointed to the post.
(Reporting by Nailia Bagirova; Writing by Margarita Antidze; Editing by Alison Williams)
