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Chirac: France strongly would like to see South
Caucasus in peace and stability
30.01.2007 13:39 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azeri President Ilham Aliev had a
meeting with French President Jacques Chirac in Paris,
in Elysee Palace. One of the key topics of the talks
was the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement. The
Azeri president described as useful the meetings of
OSCE Minsk Group with Armenian and Azeri authorities
during their last visit to the region last week.
Jacques Chirac underlining the fact that one of the
OSCE MG Co-Chairs is France stressed his country’s
efforts aimed at the solution of the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict.

Besides, the two presidents exchanged views on energy
projects, situation in the South Caucasus. Touching
upon the `Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan’ and
`Baku-Tbilisi-Erzerum’ projects I. Aliev underscored
their importance, reminding that during his visit to
Brussels last November a memorandum was signed between
Azerbaijan and the European Union on mutual
understanding and strategic partnership in energy
issues. He stressed Azerbaijan will become the first
country to supply European markets with oil and gas
from Caspian region.

During the discussions on the processes in the South
Caucasus President Chirac said that his country
strongly would like to see the region where Azerbaijan
is, in peace and stability, `Novosti Azerbaijan’
reports.