Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has received the European commissioner for enlargement and European neighborhood policy, Štefan Füle.
They discussed the development of Azerbaijan-EU relations and regional issues.
Füle told a joint briefing after the meeting that he could see progress in some spheres since his last visit to Azerbaijan.
He said that the 2nd ordinary session of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly had been well organized in Baku.
The commissioner said there was great potential for the development of Azerbaijan-EU relations within the Eastern Partnership programme.
He said that the Eurovision Song Contest would draw the world’s attention to Azerbaijan.
Füle and Mammadyarov also discussed the EU’s concerns about human rights in Azderbaijan, set out in recent statements.
On the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over the Nagorno-Karabkah, Štefan Füle said that the EU was continuing discussions on a new package of confidence-building proposals between the sides to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Asked about the package, the commissioner said that he was not ready to disclose details. "But I can say, first, that we have enough experience in this issue and that our position is not to settle the conflict through these proposals, but to coordinate contacts between ordinary people."
Füle said that he could still remember a visit two years ago to a camp for people displaced by the conflict., "We must settle the Nagorno Karabakh conflict," he repeated.
The commissioner said that the EU supported the work of the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, the international body mediating a solution to the Karabakh conflict.
"France’s replacement as a co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group is out of the question," Füle told the briefing.
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