Foreign Ministers of Armenia, France discuss Karabakh

ArmInfo. On August 24, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan had a telephone  conversation with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna.

As the RA MFA press service informs, Ararat Mirzoyan expressed his  condolences to the French side regarding the human casualties caused  by the storm that occurred in Corsica on August 18. For her part,  Catherine Colonna expressed condolences to the Armenian side in  connection with the human casualties as a result of the explosion in  the Surmalu shopping center and wished speedy recovery to all the  injured. 

Ararat Mirzoyan and Catherine Colonna expressed satisfaction with the  high level of special Armenian- French relations. In this context,  the readiness of the parties to take active steps towards further  deepening mutually beneficial cooperation and enriching the bilateral  agenda through the implementation of specific projects was confirmed.

During the telephone conversation, issues of regional security and  stability were discussed.

Ararat Mirzoyan presented to his counterpart the approaches of the  Armenian side regarding the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict, the  settlement of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan and the  establishment of peace in the region.

The parties stressed the role of France as a co-chair of the OSCE  Minsk Group in promoting the peaceful settlement of the  Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Touching upon the solution of the humanitarian problems caused by the  44-day war, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia stressed the  need for the repatriation of Armenian prisoners of war and civilians  illegally detained in Azerbaijan, as well as the need to reveal the  fate of the forcibly disappeared and missing citizens.