Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has received delegation, led by Senator of the French Senate from Upper Rhine Department, member of the France-Caucasus friendship group, former minister Jean-Marie Bockel on February 19.

The head of state emphasized traditional nature of visits of the French Parliament members.

Touching upon importance of regular visits of members of the French Parliament to Azerbaijan, President Ilham Aliyev noted role of such visits for strengthening friendship between the two countries.

Jean-Marie Bockel stressed importance of traditional visits of the French Parliament members to our country. He said members of the delegation are friends of Azerbaijan.

Emphasizing visit to the country on the eve of the anniversary of Khojaly genocide, the French guest expressed his sorrow over this serious disaster faced our people.

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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has received delegation, led by Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia Fahri Hamzah.

Te head of state expressed his satisfaction with high level Azerbaijan-Indonesia bilateral relations, stressed mutual understanding and support between the two countries. President Ilham Aliyev expressed Azerbaijan's interest in further development of relations with Indonesia in policy, economy, investment, culture, tourism, education, including inter-parliamentary cooperation as well as in other fields.

Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives of the Indonesian Parliament Fahri Hamzah expressed interest of the agency, represented by him, in expanding cooperation with the Azerbaijani parliament.