Baku has taken a peaceful initiative in the Armenian-Azerbaijani issue, and Paris welcomes it, said French foreign minister Catherine Colonna, who arrived in Azerbaijan on Wednesday.

Within the framework of her visit to Azerbaijani capital Baku, she met also with her Azerbaijani colleague, Jeyhun Bayramov.

"Today there is a chance for peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Azerbaijan has come up with a peaceful initiative, and France welcomes it... There is a strong base of bilateral relations between France and Azerbaijan, there is cooperation in various domains of culture, education, economy, cosmology," Colonna stated during Thursday’s joint press conference with Bayramov.

After her meetings in Baku, the French FM will arrive in Armenia’s capital Yerevan.