President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyevwill take part in an informal meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Moscow on Dec. 26,APA reported citing RIA Novosti.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Moldovan President Igor Dodon and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will also join the meeting.

The heads of state will sum up the results of Russia’s CIS chairmanship in 2017 and exchange views on further development of cooperation in various fields.  

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov will not attend the meeting.