Putin and Aliyev will sign a joint statement on the 33rd anniversary of the Moscow putsch

Earlier, Ilham Aliyev announced another Russian-Azerbaijani meeting before the end of the year. But there was an impression that this would happen after the BRICS Kazan Summit and COP29. Putin visits Baku two and a half to three months before these events and the US presidential elections. And, as haqqin.az "suggests", one of the key issues to be discussed, perhaps the most important, concerns the "development of the optimal scenario of security and stability" in the South Caucasus in the 3+3 format.

There is no need to doubt that we are dealing with an information leak from Ilham Aliyev's office, which, if we "translate" from diplomatic, it will turn out that Vladimir Putin is going to Baku in order to cancel the agreements reached in the Armenian-Azerbaijani settlement negotiations.

Yesterday, the official representative of the US State Department stated that Washington is ready to remain involved in the Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations, "whatever format the parties choose". Baku Turan Agency changed the title of this news during the day and stated that the United States "does not consider the format of the Minsk Group of Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations to be relevant".

From this attribution, it can be assumed that Ilham Aliyev will try to extract a statement from Putin that the OSCE Minsk Group is "de facto ineffective". The 3+3 format is what Baku presents as Ilham Aliyev's "exclusive initiative". But even the "hedgehog understands" that it is Moscow's idea.

Moreover, if until now that "format" was lame, because Georgia did not participate in the two meetings, then in the current situation, when the "Georgian Dream" has problems with the United States and the European Union, it is likely that Tbilisi will join the discussions planned in Turkey.

It is extremely remarkable that before Putin's visit to Baku, Erdogan-Aliyev had a telephone conversation. However, the media of Baku report this, referring to the office of the President of Turkey. From Taresban, Erdogan is "looking forward" to Putin's visit to Ankara, and he is going to Baku. Is it humiliating for the president of Turkey?

Will he accept Aliyev to be a mediator between him and Putin? Will the West and Russia go to "exchange zones of influence"? That Vladimir Putin intends to completely reformat the South Caucasus as a "springboard for a victorious war" against the West. August 19 is the 33rd anniversary of the putsch in Moscow. Among the Soviet republics, only Azerbaijan welcomed it. Vladimir Putin called the collapse of the USSR the greatest tragedy of the 20th century. Is it a coincidence that he will publish a joint statement with Ilham Aliyev in Baku on that day, but also on the day of the eleventh month of the terrorist war against Artsakh?