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24 October 2006 - 09:04 AMT

Paris Hopes for Oskanian-Mammadyarov Meeting to Lead to Progress in Karabakh Issue

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.