Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold two bilateral meetings with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in the Kremlin ahead of the CIS summit on October 8. The talks were announced at a briefing by Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, TASS reported.

“The president will hold two bilateral meetings - with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan,” the Russian leader's aide said.

“Issues of normalization of relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia will be discussed,” he said. - Russia plays an active positive role here.”