Azeri leader not to attend CIS summit
BAKU - Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will not attend the CIS anniversary summit to be held on September 3 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, chief of foreign relations department of the Presidential Administration Novruz Mammadov has said, dismissing earlier reports.
Prime Minister Artur Rasizade will represent the country in the summit, Mammadov told state news agency AzerTAc.
Spokesperson for Tajikistan’s Foreign Ministry Davlatali Nazriyev said earlier that leaders of the CIS countries will meet during the summit on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency reported.
He said seven CIS leaders have 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 Tajikistan’s Foreign Ministry official, the leaders of Belarus, Uzbekistan and Ukraine are also expected to accept the invitation.
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