LEBANESE FOREIGN MINISTER: ARMENIAN DIASPORA IS NOT INFLUENTIAL IN LEBANON
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
April 13 2007
Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with Lebanon’s
Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh. The meeting of Foreign Ministers
discussed bilateral relations development perspectives, mutual
establishment of embassies and other issues of mutual interest.
Lebanese Foreign Minister thanked Elmar Mammadyarov for the
humanitarian aid from Azerbaijan during Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
Mammadyarov informed Fawzi Salloukh on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
and stressed the importance of friendly states’ position for the
solution of conflict. Fawzi Salloukh said Armenian Diaspora in Lebanon
has no influence on the political life. He said his country stands
for soonest peaceful solution to the conflict under principles of
international law. The meeting also discussed issues of international
and regional scale. Azerbaijan FM met Lebanese MP Valid Jombulat
that day. The sides made an exchange of views on various issues of
bilateral interest.