President Ilham Aliyev, while on an airplane, called the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
During a telephone conversation, Aliyev said that he would not be able to take part in the informal summit of the heads of the CIS member state in St. Petersburg due to the crash of the passenger aircraft of Azerbaijan Airlines, which executed the Baku-Groose flight, and that he made a decision About return.
The heads of state expressed condolences to each other, family members and relatives of those who died as a result of a crash, including citizens of Azerbaijan, Russia and other countries, wished the wounded sooner recovery.