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    ARMENIA PRAISES FRANCE'S KARABAKH MEDIATION

    news.az
    Sept 29 2011
    Azerbaijan

    Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian has described as "very
    important" France's role as a co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group of
    mediators.

    "'France has always been active in the process of settling the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. I don't think it needs to be any more
    active in the OSCE Minsk Group," Nalbandian told journalists in Paris,
    Armenian website Panorama reported.

    The minister was speaking after Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan met
    his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, and other French leaders in
    Paris on Wednesday.

    Nalbandian said that the three Minsk Group co-chairing countries -
    France, the USA and Russia - worked well together on Karabakh.

    "I'd like to underline that the three co-chairs cooperate
    successfully. Look at the Deauville statement, which says that
    the efforts by the Russian president and foreign minister are fully
    supported by the United States and France. This cooperation is really
    successful. As a co-chairing state, France has its own significant
    role and we consider its efforts to be very important."

    The minister said that Sarkozy and Sargsyan enjoyed a relationship
    of trust with 155 enterprises in Armenia having French funding.

    The Armenian president discussed the expansion of energy and
    transport cooperation during his meetings with French officials,
    Edward Nalbandian said.

    "Relations are developing intensively, but the potential is greater
    and both sides are interested in expanding those relations," the
    minister said.

    He said that French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to Armenia in
    October would be significant.

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