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WILL THE RA PRESIDENT VISIT BAKU?
[03:13 pm] 27 December, 2007

After 19 February presidential elections in Armenia
the RA President will be invited to Baku as reported
Akif Mustafayev, national secretary, representing
Azerbaijan under the TRACECA permanent
intergovernmental commission.

According to him, a decision to hold a jubilee summit
of the organization in Baku in September of 2008 was
adopted at the conference in Astana on December 12-13.

"Under procedure rules, the president of
Azerbaijan-the country which hosts the summit, must
invite the heads of the TRACECA member-states at the
event. Only in exclusive cases the European Council
interferes with the process and undertakes
organization of the presence of uninvited heads of
states in the event", he noted.

A. Mustafayev said that Armenia spoke against
conduction of the summit in Baku. However, after
Kazakhstan withdrew its claim, there was no other
candidate left.

"In turn, Azerbaijan undertook the commitment to
adhere to all rules for holding the event", the
TRACECA representative said.

He reminded that the President of Armenia was invited
to the TRACECA summit in Baku in 1998, yet the Prime
Minister of Armenia arrived instead.

TRACECA currently comprises Azerbaijan, Armenia,
Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Tajikistan, Ukraine and
Uzbekistan.