Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Aug 3 2004

Azeri, Armenian presidents to meet in Astana

A third meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents to discuss
the Upper Garabagh conflict is due in Astana, Kazakhstan in September
within the summit of CIS heads of state.
President Ilham Aliyev is expected to hold a private meeting with
Armenian leader Kocharian and a trilateral meeting to be attended by
Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Foreign Ministry said.
In the private meeting the two presidents are expected to discuss the
current state of the conflict settlement.
No agreement was reached in the two previous meetings of Azerbaijani
and Armenian presidents.*