Secretary of Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev will visit Azerbaijan May 11-12.
"Nikolai Patrushev will hold talks with the head of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration Ramiz Mehdiyev and the Minister of National Security Eldar Mahmudov. There will be discussion of a wide range of issues affecting the topics of regional and international security," Interfax cited the press service of the Russian Security Council.
The secretary of the Russian Security Council will lay flowers at the tomb of the national leader Heydar Aliyev and at the monument to twice Hero of the Soviet Union Hazi Aslanov, the Russian Embassy in Azerbaijan said. Patrushev will also hold a meeting with the veterans of the Great Patriotic War living in Baku.According to the deputy head of the Editorial Council of Vestnik Kavkaza, the Director General of the Institute for Caspian Cooperation, Sergey Mikheyev, the agenda of the visit of the Secretary of the Russian Security Council to Baku will include the constant themes of Russian-Azerbaijani dialogue on regional security. "I'm sure they will discuss the fight against terrorism, drug trafficking and poaching in the region, the possible development of the situation in the Middle East," he listed.A political scientist, an MP of the Azerbaijani Mejlis, Rasim Musabekov, in his turn, said that since Alexander Patrushev "deals with problems of security, then probably he is interested primarily security-related issues. However, he suggested that during his visit to Baku they could discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.As for the upcoming First European Games, security there is unlikely to be included on the agenda. "I think that this kind of exchange of information and experience is not at the political level, but directly between people who are engaged in this business. But Patrushev is a political leader," Rasim Musabekov said.The secretary of the Russian Security Council will lay flowers at the tomb of the national leader Heydar Aliyev and at the monument to twice Hero of the Soviet Union Hazi Aslanov, the Russian Embassy in Azerbaijan said. Patrushev will also hold a meeting with the veterans of the Great Patriotic War living in Baku.
According to the deputy head of the Editorial Council of Vestnik Kavkaza, the Director General of the Institute for Caspian Cooperation, Sergey Mikheyev, the agenda of the visit of the Secretary of the Russian Security Council to Baku will include the constant themes of Russian-Azerbaijani dialogue on regional security. "I'm sure they will discuss the fight against terrorism, drug trafficking and poaching in the region, the possible development of the situation in the Middle East," he listed.
A political scientist, an MP of the Azerbaijani Mejlis, Rasim Musabekov, in his turn, said that since Alexander Patrushev "deals with problems of security, then probably he is interested primarily security-related issues. However, he suggested that during his visit to Baku they could discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
As for the upcoming First European Games, security there is unlikely to be included on the agenda. "I think that this kind of exchange of information and experience is not at the political level, but directly between people who are engaged in this business. But Patrushev is a political leader," Rasim Musabekov said.
