D.Medvedev and I.Aliyev
Presidents of Russia Dmitri Medvedev and Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will discuss the problem of the Karabakh conflict settlement in Ulyanovsk and attend the events on naming one of the city squares after Heydar Aliyev, according to a source in the Kremlin.
During the meeting, the sides are expected to continue exchange of views on urgent issues of international and regional agenda.
"These include the Karabakh conflict settlement mediated by Russia as an OSCE Minsk Group’s co-chair", the source said.
Medvedev and Aliyev will also attend the ceremony of naming one of the city squares after Heydar Aliyev.
In June of 1983 Heydar Aliyev, who was the first deputy chairman of the USSR Ministers Council, led a state commission on elimination of implications of Alexander Suvorov ship’s crash that grabbed on a railway bridge support via the Volga river under Ulyanovsk. The accident caused death to 176 people.
In July of 2008 a memorial to H.Aliyev was erected at the initiate of the local representatives of the public organization "All-Russian Congress of Azerbaijanis" in Zasviyazh region of Ulyanovsk and in September of this year, the Ulyanovsk town building council decided to name the square at which this memorial is erected after H.Aliyev.
Interfax-Azerbaijan
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