Azerbaijan’s Ambassador and the embassy staff have left Syria due to security reasons, Azerbaijani media reported referring to foreign office.

The MFA press service said that Azerbaijani side did its best to provide all conditions for the embassy staff to leave the country. Foreign office said at the moment there are no citizens of Azerbaijan in Syria.

Baku hopes the situation will normalize soon and the diplomatic mission will continue its work.    

During the weekend UN observers left Syria’s largest city Aleppo due to deterioration of security conditions.