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FRENCH LEADERS, AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT TO DISCUSS BUSINESS TIES
ITAR-TASS
September 17, 2012 Monday 09:12 PM GMT+4
Russia
Azerbaijan's President Ilkham Aliev arrived for a working visit in
France on Monday. French President Francois Hollande will meet him
on Tuesday.
According to the French president's entourage, the sides will
discuss the state of bilateral relations and prospects of economic
cooperation. They will also exchange views on the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict. Hollande who won the French presidential elections in May
is going to meet Aliev for the first time.
France is a co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group which is in charge
of a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between
Armenia and Azerbaijan. France's aim is to bring the position of
the parties closer. Representatives of the OSCE Minsk Group met the
foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan early in September to
discuss the situation in several Armenian-Azerbaijan border regions
in the light of ceasefire violations registered in recent months.
Paris is one of the main European buyers of energy resources from the
Caspian region. Trade turnover between France and Azerbaijan reached
about 1.5 billion euros after the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline and
the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipeline began operation in 2005-2006. A
source at the Elysee Palace said on Monday that the French side
was interested in balanced exchanges and expansion of the presence
of French enterprises in Azerbaijan. The talk is about banking,
deliveries of hi-tech equipment, communications and the construction
industry. Ilkham Aliev is expected to meet French entrepreneurs.
Aliev will visit a new pavilion of Islamic culture at the Louvre
Museum and will attend a ceremony of opening a cultural bureau at
Azerbaijan's embassy in Paris.
ITAR-TASS
September 17, 2012 Monday 09:12 PM GMT+4
Russia
Azerbaijan's President Ilkham Aliev arrived for a working visit in
France on Monday. French President Francois Hollande will meet him
on Tuesday.
According to the French president's entourage, the sides will
discuss the state of bilateral relations and prospects of economic
cooperation. They will also exchange views on the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict. Hollande who won the French presidential elections in May
is going to meet Aliev for the first time.
France is a co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group which is in charge
of a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between
Armenia and Azerbaijan. France's aim is to bring the position of
the parties closer. Representatives of the OSCE Minsk Group met the
foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan early in September to
discuss the situation in several Armenian-Azerbaijan border regions
in the light of ceasefire violations registered in recent months.
Paris is one of the main European buyers of energy resources from the
Caspian region. Trade turnover between France and Azerbaijan reached
about 1.5 billion euros after the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline and
the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipeline began operation in 2005-2006. A
source at the Elysee Palace said on Monday that the French side
was interested in balanced exchanges and expansion of the presence
of French enterprises in Azerbaijan. The talk is about banking,
deliveries of hi-tech equipment, communications and the construction
industry. Ilkham Aliev is expected to meet French entrepreneurs.
Aliev will visit a new pavilion of Islamic culture at the Louvre
Museum and will attend a ceremony of opening a cultural bureau at
Azerbaijan's embassy in Paris.