PARIS HOPES FOR OSKANIAN-MAMMADYAROV MEETING TO LEAD TO PROGRESS IN KARABAKH ISSUE

PanARMENIAN.Net
24.10.2006 13:04 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azeri President Ilham Aliyev will pay a state visit
to France in January 2007, the French MFA reported upon completion
of the talks between French FM Philippe Douste-Blazy and his Azeri
counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov. Economic relations between the two
countries are raising and French enterprises pay much attention to
the Azeri market.

Past year the bilateral trade turnover increased three times, making
some 500 million Euros. Philippe Douste-Blazy hoped for the impending
meeting of Armenian and Azeri FMs to promote progress on the way of
settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, reports ITAR-TASS.