Baku – APA. French President Francois Hollande and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev held a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Oct.27, APA reports quoting AzerTAc.
A guard of honor was arranged for the Azerbaijani president outside the palace.
President Ilham Aliyev reviewed the guard of honor.
French President Francois Hollande welcomed his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev.
During the meeting the parties expressed satisfaction with the successful development of bilateral relations between Azerbaijan and France in various spheres, noting that there are good prospects for further development of cooperation in the fields of energy, aerospace industry, military-technical, education, metro construction and others. They also exchanged views on the implementation of the Southern Corridor project.
The parties also exchanged views on the course of negotiations on the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and a fair solution to the conflict on the basis of international legal norms and documents, stressing the importance of changing the status quo on the conflict and liberating the occupied territories.
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Baku. Rufat Ahmadzada – APA. French President Francois Hollande welcomed Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Oct.27, APA reports.
The French president is also expected to meet with his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan.
A trilateral meeting between the Azerbaijani, Armenian and French presidents will take place at 22:00 Baku time. An official reception will be hosted for the presidents after the two-hour meeting.
The presidents will discuss the main provisions of a peace treaty on the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
This is the third meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents in 2014.