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Sunday 26 Apr 2015 - 11:42 Makkah mean time-7-7-1436
French President Holland François (Left) Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (Right) (Google image)
Baku , (IINA) - Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met here on Saturday with French counterpart FrançoisHollande, who arrived in Baku from Yerevan on an official visit on Friday.
During the meeting, Aliyev thanked Hollande for his active mediation in the process of resolving Baku's decades-long tensions with neighboring Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Fox News reported.
"Both leaders exchanged views about solving the Armenian-Azerbaijani dispute. Aliyev expressed his satisfaction with Hollande's active participation in the process of resolving the conflict," Aliyev's office said at the end of the meeting.
The leaders also discussed other regional and international matters, including their preparations for the next summit of the Eastern Partnership, an EU initiative that was launched in 2009 and governs the 28-nation bloc's relationship with the post-Soviet states of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
The summit is scheduled to be held in Riga on May 21-22.
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