On December 26-27 the Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili, will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan. On Wednesday, he will be received by President Ilham Aliyev, as well as will have one-on-one talks , and the talks with the participation of delegations and the Prime Minister, Artur Rasizade.
It become known from diplomatic sources, that according to the preliminary program, no agreements will be signed during the visit. Not a press conference is planned. The meeting of only Ivanishvili with press is proposed after talks with Rasizade.
Representatives of the independent media in Azerbaijan have not been invited to the meeting in the Cabinet of Ministers.
This is the first visit by Ivanishvili in Baku after his appointment as head of the government of Georgia. Some intrigue to the visit of Ivanishvili add recent remarks on the possibility of revising the terms of agreements for the supply of gas and the suspension of Georgia's participation in the construction of the Baku-Kars-Tbilisi railway.—06D-
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