ASSISTANT OF RUSSIAN PRESIDENT: "AGENDA OF MEETING BETWEEN DMITRY MEDVEDEV AND ILHAM ALIYEV CAN COVER IRAN ISSUE"

Azeri Press Agency
02 Jul 2008
Azerbaijan

Baku. Tamara Grigoryeva-APA. "Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will debate security and
international legal status of the Caspian Sea", Sergey Prikhodko,
Assistant of Russian President told journalists, APA reports quoting
Russian press agencies.

Prikhodko noted that the issue would be debated at the 3rd Summit of
the heads of Caspian littoral states in Baku.

"The date of the summit has not yet been determined, but the work is
under way. We are interested in productivity of the meeting of the
heads of states", he said. He added that the meeting between Medvedev
and Aliyev would touch upon Iran issue and mentioned that there were
many Azerbaijani Diasporas in Iran.

"Approach of Azerbaijani President to this issue is very interesting
for us", he said. To him, the sides will exchange views on solution
to Nagorno Karabakh conflict. He stressed that Russia supported
all efforts directed to the settlement of the conflict within the
framework of OSCE MG as well as other formats.

"Moscow has unchangeable position. We consider that Azerbaijanis
and Armenians should select solution formula of the problem",
he said. He added that Russia could play a role of guarantor of
compromise coordination.