Medvedev is also expected to meet the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in Astana later in the week.

Within the next 3-4 years Karabakh will not only ensure its energy independence but also to become electric power exporter

Armenia is a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation but Azerbaijan is not and Aliev will not be at the Astana summit.

“Bummer!” – this is how the Azeri president would have qualified the Russian president’s straight-from-the-shoulder remark on Nagorno-Karabakh in his interview with Russia Today and First Informational Caucasus TV channels and Echo of Moscow radio company with regard to Saakashvili’s military speculation in August 2008.

The Georgia-Russia War of August 2008 lasted only five days. By the end nothing much had changed on the ground. Yet the political fallout from the war has implications in the rest of the Caucasus and beyond.

The war internationalised the Caucasus Region

“We will show the appropriate reaction if any further step is taken,” Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu told reporters. He said the Greek Cypriot administration does not have the right to embark on oil and gas exploration in the Mediterranean unless the Cyprus issue is resolved and a government representing the entire island is formed.

The two leaders last met in Kazan on June 24th in the framework of the Russia-Armenia-Azerbaijan summit.

The Armenian expedition is taking place at the invitation of the Georgian Mountaineering Federation

Turkish news agencies reporting the meeting said that Turkish-Azerbaijan relations where discussed.