Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will have contacts with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Turkmenistan. He made the statement while answering journalists’ questions following a government meeting, Sputnik Armenia reports.
“The format is such that there will be contacts with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. No formal meeting is scheduled, but there have been occasions in the past when arrangements were made on the spot and discussions took place after the parties identified a mutual need or a need to address a specific issue,” Pashinyan said.
The Armenian prime minister is scheduled to travel to Turkmenistan on October 8 to attend a summit of leaders of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
The most recent bilateral meeting between Nikol Pashinyan and Vladimir Putin took place on September 1 on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit. As for the latest direct contact between the Armenian prime minister and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, the two leaders last met on August 31 in Bishkek.
