yr this week, the Kremlin said Wednesday.
Moscow said Putin plans “separate meetings” with Aliyev in Kyrgyzstan during a summit with ex-Soviet allies, which Armenia’s Nikol Pashinyan will reportedly not attend.
It will be his first meeting with Aliyev since Baku’s lightning September offensive to retake control of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Kremlin’s announcement came after Kyrgyzstan, which is hosting the CIS summit, said Pashinyan would not attend the summit attended by Putin.
Relations between traditional allies Armenia and Russia have soured in recent weeks, after Moscow refused to intervene in the Azerbaijani offensive.
Aliyev meeting Putin comes after he snubbed a European summit in Spain that Pashinyan attended, criticising Western policy on the Caucasus.
The EU is due to host talks between Aliyev and Pashiyan this month to try to reduce tensions.
Russia’s traditional mediating role in Karabakh has been reduced since it is bogged down by its almost 20-month long offensive in Ukraine.
Azerbaijan retook control of Nagorno-Karabakh for the first time in three decades after a one-day offensive that sparked a mass exodus of ethnic Armenians.
Putin’s trip to Kyrgyzstan will be his first abroad since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for him in March, accusing the Russian leader of having illegally deported Ukrainian children.
