Azeri leader off to Tajikistan

MPA news agency
13 Sep 04

Baku, 13 September: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev left for
Dushanbe today to attend a summit of the Economic Cooperation
Organization.

A source from the presidential administration has told MPA that issues
of developing economic, political and cultural relations between the
two countries will be discussed with Tajik President Emomali Rahmonov.

Tomorrow (14 September), President Aliyev will leave for Astana to take
part in a CIS summit. A trilateral meeting of the Azerbaijani, Russian
and Armenian presidents and a bilateral meeting of the Azerbaijani
and Armenian presidents attended by the co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk
Group are expected to take place in the capital of Kazakhstan.

On 22 September, the Azerbaijani leader will travel to New York to
attend a session of the UN General Assembly where he is also expected
to make a speech. The Azerbaijani president will be received by US
President George Bush and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.