French President Emmanuel Macron had a telephone conversation with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliev on Saturday, at the end of which the two leaders wished “maintain close coordination“, reported the Élysée in a press release. The French presidency specifies that Emmanuel Macron will also meet with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on the sidelines of the Francophonie summit in Djerba on November 19.
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Armenia and Azerbaijan held U.S.-brokered talks in Washington on Monday, hours after renewed border bombings in a conflict that has claimed hundreds of lives in recent months. Emmanuel Macron and Ilham Aliev have “wished to maintain close coordination in the wake of the Prague summit“, which had brought together on October 6, on the sidelines of the first meeting of the European Political Community, President Aliev and Prime Minister Pashinian, according to the Elysee.
Emmanuel Macron hashailed the stabilizing effect of the European Union civilian mission along the border with Azerbaijan“, whose deployment had been decided at the Prague summit, and reaffirmed “France’s full willingness to support the process of normalizing relations between the two countries, and to work for a political solution in the region that will allow peace to take hold on a lasting basisadded the French presidency.