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SARKOZY FEARS FOR TRANSPORT CONTRACTS AND TIES WITH AZERBAIJAN BECAUSE OF 'ARMENIAN GENOCIDE'
Azerbaijan Business Center
Feb 20 2012
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Receiving French Transport Minister Thierry
Mariani and French President's Adviser for Diplomacy Damien Loras,
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in fact called conditions for the
conservation of a high level of Azerbaijani-French relationships.
The Azerbaijani Presidential Administration's press service informs
that Mr. Mariani conveyed the message of President Nicolas Sarkozy to
his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev. At the same time Mr. Mariani
expressed confidence that his country's partnership with Azerbaijan
would develop further.
President Aliyev expressed his gratitude for Nicolas Sarkozy's sincere
thoughts in the message about development of bilateral links and
voiced assurance that relations would continue expanding further. At
that, President Aliyev expressed a hope that the law penalizing the
denial of the "Armenian genocide" does not come into force. At the
meeting the sides exchanged views on bilateral relationships between
Azerbaijan and France, regional and international issues.
The visit of the French delegation can be considered the first and
most serious (for now) in response to Azerbaijan's negative attitude
to the adoption of the French law on the criminalization of "Armenian
genocide" in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-18. Most likely, the visit
had been lobbied by such giants of the French economy as BNP Paribas,
Societe Generale, Alstom, and Total, which feared the loss of lucrative
contracts in Azerbaijan. Informally, such prospects are already being
discussed in Baku.
From: A. Papazian
Azerbaijan Business Center
Feb 20 2012
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Receiving French Transport Minister Thierry
Mariani and French President's Adviser for Diplomacy Damien Loras,
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in fact called conditions for the
conservation of a high level of Azerbaijani-French relationships.
The Azerbaijani Presidential Administration's press service informs
that Mr. Mariani conveyed the message of President Nicolas Sarkozy to
his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev. At the same time Mr. Mariani
expressed confidence that his country's partnership with Azerbaijan
would develop further.
President Aliyev expressed his gratitude for Nicolas Sarkozy's sincere
thoughts in the message about development of bilateral links and
voiced assurance that relations would continue expanding further. At
that, President Aliyev expressed a hope that the law penalizing the
denial of the "Armenian genocide" does not come into force. At the
meeting the sides exchanged views on bilateral relationships between
Azerbaijan and France, regional and international issues.
The visit of the French delegation can be considered the first and
most serious (for now) in response to Azerbaijan's negative attitude
to the adoption of the French law on the criminalization of "Armenian
genocide" in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-18. Most likely, the visit
had been lobbied by such giants of the French economy as BNP Paribas,
Societe Generale, Alstom, and Total, which feared the loss of lucrative
contracts in Azerbaijan. Informally, such prospects are already being
discussed in Baku.
From: A. Papazian