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.