President Rouhani to Visit Baku for Iran-Russia-Azerbaijan Summit


TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will travel to Baku in early August to attend a trilateral meeting with his counterparts from Russia and the Republic of Azerbaijan.

In his two-day visit to Baku, the Iranian president is going to hold separate bilateral meetings with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev.

During the summit, the three Caspian countries are going to sign new trilateral documents, while previous Tehran-Baku agreements on strategic cooperation will be also reviewed.

The upcoming summit will follow an April meeting among the Iranian, Russian and Azeri foreign ministers in Baku.

In that gathering, Iran’s Mohammad Javad Zarif, Russia’s Sergey Lavrov and Azerbaijan’s Elmar Mammadyarov discussed a range of issues, including ways to settle conflicts in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.