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WILL THE RA PRESIDENT VISIT BAKU?

Politics

After 19 February presidential elections in Armenia the RA President will be invited to Baku as reported Akif Mustafayev, national secretary, representing Azerbaijan under the TRACECA permanent intergovernmental commission.

According to him, a decision to hold a jubilee summit of the organization in Baku in September of 2008 was adopted at the conference in Astana on December 12-13.

"Under procedure rules, the president of Azerbaijan-the country which hosts the summit, must invite the heads of the TRACECA member-states at the event. Only in exclusive cases the European Council interferes with the process and undertakes organization of the presence of uninvited heads of states in the event", he noted.

A. Mustafayev said that Armenia spoke against conduction of the summit in Baku. However, after Kazakhstan withdrew its claim, there was no other candidate left.

"In turn, Azerbaijan undertook the commitment to adhere to all rules for holding the event", the TRACECA representative said.

He reminded that the President of Armenia was invited to the TRACECA summit in Baku in 1998, yet the Prime Minister of Armenia arrived instead.

TRACECA currently comprises Azerbaijan, Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.