Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani will take a two-day visit to Azerbaijan to participate in a tripartite meeting with his Azerbaijani and Russian counterparts in August, The Tehran Times reported.
On agenda are separate sessions with President Vladimir Putin and President Ilham Aliyev.
In addition to signing tripartite documents, the Iranian and Azerbaijani Presidents will review previous agreements and look into ways to expand bilateral ties.
Earlier on April 7, the Foreign Ministers of the three countries sat together in Baku amid escalating conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Earlier, the spokesman for the Russian President, Dmitry Peskov confirmed the planned visit of Vladimir Putin to Azerbaijan in August.
Note that the main theme of the forthcoming meeting of the three Presidents will be the creation and operation of the North-South transport corridor, in which goods will be transported from Europe to the Persian Gulf and further to Southeast Asia and back through Iran, Azerbaijan and Russia. -02B-
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