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Rouhani due in Baku for Iran, Azeri, Russia tripartite summit

Xinhua, August 5, 2016 Adjust font size:

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will visit Azerbaijan on Sunday for a trilateral meeting with his Azeri and Russian counterparts, official IRNA news agency reported on Friday.

Rouhani will attend the summit in Azerbaijan's capital Baku to exchange views with Ilham Aliyev and Vladimir Putin about the ways to bolster relations and discuss the latest regional developments, it said.

The sides will confer on expansion of trilateral cooperation in commerce, energy, telecommunications, environment, transportation and transit of goods, as well as fighting terrorism, it added.

During his two-day visit to Baku, Rouhani will also hold separate meetings with his Azeri and Russian counterparts to exchange views on issues of mutual interest.

Iranian and Azeri presidents will discuss implementation of already reached agreements and bolstering cooperation in commerce, industry, energy, culture, banking, consular facilities, telecommunications, and railway transportation.

The Baku meeting is held upon the proposal by Aliyev for talks about the issues of common interests.

In April, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Russian and Azeri counterparts, Sergei Lavrov and Elmar Mammadyarov, held talks in Baku on ties and cooperation.

During their meeting, they stressed the importance of strengthening security, political and economic cooperation among the three countries. Endit