RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN TO MEET IN MOSCOW

PanARMENIAN.Net - As we have already reported, in the near future the meeting of the religious leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan will take place in Moscow on head of the Russian Orthodox Church Alexy II initiative. The conversation will be dedicated to discussing the Karabakh conflict settlement process. The participants of the meeting will exchange opinions on the opportunity for paving the way for developing Armenian-Azerbaijani dialogue at different levels. That will be the fifth meeting of the Catholicos of All Armenians and the head of the clerical department of Moslems of the Caucasus. Sheik-ul-Islam Allahshukyur Pashazade met with the Catholicos of All Armenians Vazgen I in 1988 and 1993 in Rostov-on-Don (Russia) and Montre (Switzerland). The meeting of the leader of Azeri clergy with Catholicos Garegin I took place in Moscow through the mediation of the Patriarch of All Russia 1995. Sheik-ul-Islam met with present Patriarch of Armenian Apostolic Church Garegin II November 2000.