Azeri President to attend CIS anniversary summit
(Interfax, August 13) – Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is expected to attend the CIS anniversary summit to be held on September 3 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan next month.
Spokesperson for the Tajikistan’s Foreign Ministry Davlatali Nazriyev said leaders of the CIS countries will meet during the summit on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency reported.
He said seven CIS leaders have already accepted the invitation to attend the summit.
"The governments of Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova have already confirmed that the leaders of these countries will attend the Dushanbe summit".
According to the Tajikistan’s Foreign Ministry official, the leaders of Belarus, Uzbekistan and Ukraine are also expected to accept the invitation.
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