Baku / 25.12.17 / Turan: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will participate in the informal summit of the CIS heads of state on Tuesday.
According to the press service of the Kremlin, the summit "is expected to sum up the results of the Russian presidency in the CIS in 2017 and exchange views on further development of cooperation in various fields."
These presidents will take part in the summit: Russia - Vladimir Putin,
Azerbaijan - Ilham Aliyev, Armenia - Serzh Sargsyan, Belarus - Alexander Lukashenko, Kazakhstan - Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kyrgyzstan - Sooronbai Jeenbekov, Moldova - Igor Dodon, Tajikistan -Emomali Rahmon, and Uzbekistan - Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov will not attend the meeting. Earlier, the Kremlin press service reported that Putin discussed with Berdymukhamedov on the phone the topical issues of the bilateral agenda, as well as interaction within the CIS, RIA Novosti reported. -06D-
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