Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has left for the Russian city of St. Petersburg to attend the summit on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Azerbaijan’s president will meet with his Russian and Armenian counterparts Vladimir Putin and Serzh Sargsyan today.

Earlier, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said that Putin will first hold private talks with his Azerbaijani and Armenian counterparts, and then the talks will continue in a trilateral format.

Note that a meeting was held in Vienna on May 16 involving President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, US Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, French Minister of State for European Affairs Harlem Desir, OSCE Minsk group co-chairs, and special representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk.