Dmitriy Medvedev and Ilham Aliyev will discuss Karabakh settlement and issues of the legal status of the Caspian Sea.
Presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan Dmitriy Medvedev and Ilham Aliyev will discuss the Karabakh settlement and issues of the legal status of the Caspian Sea at the talks in Sochi on Tuesday.
According to the news service for the Russian President, Aliyev will visit Russia at the invitation of the Russian president.
“During the meeting of the two leaders, there is a plan to hold an independent exchange of views on key aspects of the Russian-Azerbaijani ties, as well as urgent issues of regional agenda, primarily the state of the negotiation process on Nagorno Karabakh settlement”, the statement reads.
Sources in the Kremlin reminded that the presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan meet regularly during the trilateral talks with participation of the Armenian president on Nagorno Karabakh issue. The recent one was held in Kazan on 24 July.
As expected, Medvedev and Aliyev will also discuss the Caspian issue ‘in terms of continuing talks on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, as well as in the light of implementation of the decisions of the Third Summit of Caspian Littoral States in Baku in November 2010”, according to the news service for the Kremlin.
At the talks of the Russian and Azerbaijani presidents on Tuesday, there is also a plan to exchange views on interaction in humanitarian sphere. “The first Baku international humanitarian forum is scheduled in Baku for October of this year under patronage of the Russian and Azerbaijani presidents”, the news service said reminding that the steering committee of the forum is headed by chiefs of the presidential administrations of the two countries.
Additionally, the priority at the talks will be attached to implementation of agreements in trade and economic, energy, investment and banking sectors, reached by results of the official visit of the Russian president to Baku in September of the last year.
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