AZERI, ARMENIAN LEADERS TO MEET IN SEPTEMBER SUMMIT OF CIS

Bilik Dunyasi news agency
3 Aug 04

BAKU

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will meet Armenian President Robert
Kocharyan in the Kazakh capital, Astana. The meeting will be joined by
Russian President Vladimir Putin.

According to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, the meeting will be
part of the CIS summit due in September.

Political circles in Azerbaijan explain Putin’s participation in the
meeting by Russia’s desire not to lag behind Turkey in resolving the
Karabakh conflict.

The main topic on the agenda of the Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian
presidents’ meeting will be regional stability. In addition to that,
the sides are expected to discuss new recommendations of the OSCE
Minsk Group.