Netanyahu to visit Azerbaijan Republic and Kazakhstan

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says within the next three months he will travel to four countries, including three where no sitting Israeli prime minister has ever visited: Australia, Singapore and Kazakhstan.

The fourth country is Azerbaijan Republic on Iran's border, according to Jerusalem Post.

Like Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan is a majority Muslim country.

He visited there briefly in 1997 on the way back from a visit to the East, and met in the airport in Baku with late Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev, the father of the current president.

Israel purchases most of its oil from Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.

Starting in January, Kazakhstan will have a seat on the 15-member UN Security Council.