TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan, October 8.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister
Nikol Pashinyan held an informal conversation during a concert
program organized in the Turkmen city of Turkmenbashi following the
8th Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of Azerbaijan and
Central Asia, Trend's
special correspondent reports.
The leaders were seated next to each other at the same
table.
The 8th Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of Azerbaijan
and Central Asia was held on October 8, 2026, in the Avaza National
Tourist Zone (Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan). It was the first
full-fledged meeting in the expanded format following the decision
to grant Azerbaijan full participation, adopted at the summit in
Tashkent in November 2025.
The meeting addressed regional security, political and
diplomatic cooperation, trade and economic ties, energy, transport
and logistics corridors, environmental issues, and humanitarian
cooperation. The summit concluded with the signing of the Joint
Statement of the 8th Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of
Azerbaijan and Central Asia and a decision on the regulatory
documents governing the format.
