Azerbaijani, Palestinian leaders to discuss bilateral relations.

BAKU, June 28 (Itar-Tass) - President of the Palestinian National
Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, arrives on a two-day official visit in Baku
Tuesday, diplomatic sources said.
He is expected to have talks with President Ilham Aliyev. Their
conversation will begin tete-a-tete and the Palestinian and Azerbaijni
delegations will join them in full force later.
Diplomats say the two sides will concentrate on the ways of building
up the Azerbaijani-Palestinian bilateral relations in both political and
economic spheres, on the situation in the Middle East, on peace settlement
of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and settlement of the conflict in
Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave region in Azerbaijan populated by ethnic
Armenians.
The sides do not plan the signing of any documents upon the results of
the talks but President Aliyev and Mahmoud Abbas are expected to make
statements for the mass media.
As part of the visit, Abbas is expected to have a meeting with
Azerbaijani Prime Minister Artur Rasi-zade and to take part in a ceremony
of opening the Palestinian embassy in Baku.
This is the first time that the head of the Palestinian National
Authority visits Azerbaijan.