YEREVAN, MAY 13, ARMENPRESS. Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Nalbandian met Chair of the Committee on European Affairs Jean Bizet in France, Press Service of the MFA of Armenia informed “Armenpress”.

The sides discussed the efforts aimed at overcoming the consequences of the Azerbaijani large-scale military operations and the possibilities of restarting the negotiation process.

In this regard, Edward Nalbandian emphasized the importance of Jean Bizet’s targeted statement on April 7, the assessment to the situation and the steps towards the settlement of the conflict. The sides highlighted the need of installation of incident investigation mechanisms.

Issues related to the Armenia-EU relations, the negotiation process over the new legal framework and the launch of the visa liberalization regime were discussed during the meeting.

The same day the Armenian Minister met the members of the Armenian Parliament's friendship group in the French Senate and the National Assembly during which several issues of the development of Armenian-French relations, the mutual cooperation between legislative bodies of the two states and the cooperation in the Parliamentary Assemblies were discussed.

The major topic of discussion was the overcoming of the consequences of the Azerbaijani aggression against the Nagorno Karabakh. Edward Nalbandian presented in detail to the French Parliamentarians the efforts of Armenia and the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs towards that direction.

Issues related to the Middle Eastern developments, fight against terrorism and migration crisis were also discussed during the meeting.