Armenian president to go to Russia for important discussions

By Azernews

By Amina Nazarli

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan will leave for Russia on a working visit on August 10 to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.  

During the negotiations the two sides will discuss key issues on the bilateral agenda of cooperation between two countries and strategic partners in a number of areas including political, trade-economic, humanitarian as well as the development of integration processes in Eurasia.

Presidents Putin and Sargsyan will also exchange views on topical problems of international and regional agenda, according to the Armenian state press service.

The Kremlin reported that Sargsyan will arrive in Moscow on the invitation of Putin.

Prior to this, the two leaders met in June, when St. Petersburg hosted a summit to discuss the aggravation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev also attended the meeting.

But what promises the meeting between Putin and Sargsyan, to be held just two days after tripartite meeting of Azerbaijani, Russian and Iranian presidents in Baku.

While being in Baku the Russian president also had a face-to-face meeting with President Aliyev. It is not the exception that alongside wade range of issues, the presidents also touched upon acceleration of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict solution.

Right after his visit to Baku, Putin met with Turkey’s President Rejep Tayyip Erdogan in St. Petersburg, after nine months of tensions, where the presidents decided to strengthen their ties even more than previously.

Making a statement after the meeting Erdogan suggested to create a trilateral cooperation mechanism between Turkey, Russia and Azerbaijan, that can strike at the interests of Armenia in the region.

There is huge probablity that the upcoming Russian and Armenian presidents meeting will discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and schedule another trilateral meeting between Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia to fin a solution to the conflict by liberating seven regions of Azerbaijan and identifying the corridor, as were agreed between the sides during the St. Petersburg meeting in June