MOSCOW, August 3. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan will hold talks in Moscow on August 10 on cooperation in various fields and on a number of pressing international and regional problems, the Kremlin press service reported on Wednesday.
Sargsyan will visit the Russian capital at the invitation of Putin.
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"During the summit it is planned to discuss key issues of cooperation in the political, trade, economic and humanitarian areas and promotion of integration processes in the Eurasian space," the press service said. "The two sides are expected to exchange views on a number of pressing international and regional problems."
On Monday, August 8, the Russian president will visit Baku where he will meet with Azerbaijani and Iranian leaders Ilham Aliyev and Hassan Rouhani in both the trilateral format and in the format of separate bilateral meetings.
Russian, Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Vladimir Putin, Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sagsyan held a meeting on Nagorno-Karabakh in St. Petersburg on June 20. In a trilateral statement adopted at the meeting, the parties reaffirmed their commitment to normalizing the situation on the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh.