Azeri president to visit Moscow on 21-22 July

Trend news agency
19 Jul 06

Baku, 19 July: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is planning to visit
Moscow on 21-22 July, the head of the foreign relations department
of the Azerbaijani presidential administration, Novruz Mammadov,
has said in an exclusive interview with Trend.

Mammadov said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been inviting
the leaders of CIS countries to an informal summit for several
years now. The agenda of the meeting has not been drafted since it
is informal.

"The positive nature of such meetings is that issues of mutual
interest can be discussed during informal conversations," Mammadov
said. He said that a range of regional and international issues might
be discussed at the summit.

Mammadov said that this meeting will be interesting and President
Putin will speak about the results of the G8 summit, which was recently
held in St Petersburg.

"It is also important to us because issues concerning the
Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagornyy Karabakh conflict were discussed at
the summit," Mammadov said.