The French Ambassador for Eastern Partnership, Brice Roquefeuil, will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan next week, the French foreign ministry said in a statement, Turan reported

To note, it is about the French Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, but the French foreign ministry did not use this name of the position.

“The visit will be a continuation of the regional visit which started on April 11 with a visit to Yerevan. Paris welcomes the direct dialogue between the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan and the decision of the two countries to create a bilateral commission on border issues and conclude a peace treaty. France intends to support this process,” the aforesaid statement added.

To note, Javier Colomina Piriz, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy and NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, will also visit Azerbaijan on Thursday and Friday with a similar mission. Earlier he visited Armenia and Georgia.