Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev poses with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (R) ahead of a meeting at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium February 6, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Jean-Claude Juncker, the gaffe-prone head of the European Commission, on Monday highlighted the difficulty the EU has in dealing with the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan with a joke at its president's expense.
"Thank you, have a nice day," Juncker told reporters at the end of a news conference. "I will now see the president of Azerbaijan, so the nice part of the day is over."
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