President Abdullah Gul is scheduled to pay a visit to the autonomous Azerbaijani republic of Nakhchivan later this week, when he will take the opportunity to hold a high-level meeting with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev.
In addition to Aliyev, the summit’s host, and Gul, the presidents of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are expected to take part in the summit on Oct.
The summit in Nakhchivan comes at a delicate time, as it will take place around one week before the foreign ministers of Armenia and Turkey are to sign two protocols providing a framework for the normalization of their bilateral relations. Gul will reassure Aliyev that Ankara’s steps for normalizing its relations with Yerevan will not harm its friendly relations with Baku. Meanwhile, Gul’s meeting with Aliyev is likely to be followed by a bilateral meeting between Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan, which is expected to take place in Kishinev, Moldova, on the sidelines of an upcoming summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on Oct.
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