Earlier, an Azerbaijani airline's Baku-Grozny flight had crashed in Kazakhstan. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is returning from the informal CIS summit in Russia to Baku due to this aviation accident. This was reported by “RIA Novosti” here.
“Due to the tragedy, the President of Azerbaijan is urgently returning to Baku”, the report says.
Furthermore, Aliyev has ordered a delegation of Azerbaijani government representatives to urgently travel to Aktau. At the same time, the President of Kazakhstan has ordered the formation of a commission to investigate the plane crash, which will be led by Deputy Prime Minister Bozumbayev.