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800 Azerbaijani muslims so far have visas to leave for pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia

07 December 2005 [16:46] - TODAY.AZ
Office of Caucasian Muslims informed APA news agency that quota for pilgrimage allocated by Saudi Arabia to Azerbaijan this year was increased.

Though 2800 people from Azerbaijan were to leave the country for pilgrimage the number was increased to 3450 people by appeals made later on. The documents of pilgrims are registered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at present.

About 800 of them have been granted visas so far and their documents have been sent to the OCM. The visa process will be over by December 15-20. It must be noted that, the pilgrims will start pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia by December 24.

APA

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