A meeting between Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will take place on Sunday, August 10 in Sochi, Russia. Novruz Mammadov, the deputy head of the Aliyev’s presidential administration and director of his foreign relations department tweeted that the two presidents will have a trilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Today, President Putin will meet separately with the two presidents. According to Putin’s official website, the Putin-Sargsyan bilateral meeting will receive “special attention in Armenia with regard to Armenia’s membership in the Eurasian Economic Union; discussions about potential bilateral cooperation in the spheres of politics, economic trade and humanitarian work will take place.”
With Ilham Aliyev, Putin will discuss Russian-Azerbaijani cooperation in the fields of energy, investments and regional cooperation.
The main thrust, however, of the meetings will focus on the recent upsurge of violence along the Karabakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact and the state border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In contrast to the Armenian side, the Azerbaijani side was not expressing any desire for a meeting with Serzh Sargsyan prior to arriving in Sochi.
The last meeting between Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev was on November 19, 2013 in Vienna.
