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    PRESIDENT HOLLANDE TO PRESS AHEAD PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT

    AzerNews, Azerbaijan
    April 4 2014

    4 April 2014, 15:13 (GMT+05:00)
    By Nigar Orujova

    The main purpose of the French president's visit to Azerbaijan
    is to support the peaceful settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

    French Ambassador to Azerbaijan Pascal Meunier made the remark on
    April 4.

    President Francois Hollande's visit to Azerbaijan is of great political
    importance, the French president will visit Azerbaijan, Georgia and
    Armenia, he said.

    "I think that the conflict settlement will create more opportunities
    for both parties. This is a sovereign region, which can shape its
    future itself. We support peace and friendship between the countries
    of the region," Meunier said.

    President Hollande will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan this year
    at the invitation of his Azerbaijani counterpart. However, there is
    no information about the exact date of the visit.

    Francois Hollande confirmed his intention to visit Azerbaijan at a
    meeting with Azerbaijani Ambassador to France Elchin Amirbayov.

    The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict emerged in 1988 when Armenia made
    territorial claims against Azerbaijan.

    Since a lengthy war in the early 1990s that displaced over one million
    Azerbaijanis, Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent
    of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including
    Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions.

    Long-standing efforts by US, Russian and French mediators have been
    largely fruitless so far.

    The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian
    withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been
    enforced to this day.

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