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HOLLANDE TO RECEIVE AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT DURING "WORKING VISIT" TO PARIS
Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)
September 17, 2012 Monday
PARIS, Sept 17 (KUNA) -- French President Francois Hollande will
meet here Tuesday with Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliyev, for
talks during the Azerbaijani's working visit to the French capital,
diplomatic sources confirmed Monday.
Aliyev is due here Monday and will meet the French leader Tuesday
afternoon for bilateral and regional talks, the source indicated.
High on the agenda will be the growing tensions and often deadly
clashes between Azerbaijan and its neighbour, Armenia, who are still
at odds over sovereignty of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory.
France, alongside the United States and Russia, is a "co-president"
of the Minsk Group, which is seeking to mediate a solution to the
conflict and Foreign Ministers from the protagonists were received
here in Paris in July to try to ease the tensions.
The Azerbaijani pardon in early September of one of its military
cadets, convicted of brutally murdering an Armenian officer while on
joint training in Turkey, has again inflamed tensions between the two
countries, who went to war from 1988-1994 over the disputed territory.
(end) jk.asa KUNA 171334 Sep 12NNNN
From: Baghdasarian
Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)
September 17, 2012 Monday
PARIS, Sept 17 (KUNA) -- French President Francois Hollande will
meet here Tuesday with Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliyev, for
talks during the Azerbaijani's working visit to the French capital,
diplomatic sources confirmed Monday.
Aliyev is due here Monday and will meet the French leader Tuesday
afternoon for bilateral and regional talks, the source indicated.
High on the agenda will be the growing tensions and often deadly
clashes between Azerbaijan and its neighbour, Armenia, who are still
at odds over sovereignty of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory.
France, alongside the United States and Russia, is a "co-president"
of the Minsk Group, which is seeking to mediate a solution to the
conflict and Foreign Ministers from the protagonists were received
here in Paris in July to try to ease the tensions.
The Azerbaijani pardon in early September of one of its military
cadets, convicted of brutally murdering an Armenian officer while on
joint training in Turkey, has again inflamed tensions between the two
countries, who went to war from 1988-1994 over the disputed territory.
(end) jk.asa KUNA 171334 Sep 12NNNN
From: Baghdasarian