SOCHI, Oct 31 Presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev is holding talks in Sochi, a correspondent reports.
The meeting is taking place before a trilateral summit, where Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will also participate. Putin held talks with him this afternoon. They were held in the Sochi sanatorium «Rus», where the event will be held in an expanded format. A document is expected to be adopted, which will form the basis for the settlement of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
After talking with the Russian President, Pashinyan stated that he considers acceptable the approaches to Karabakh that Moscow's project to establish relations between Yerevan and Baku suggests is acceptable.
>Another decision that could be made in Sochi is to extend the mandate of Russian peacekeepers for 10-20 years.