"A meeting between the presidents of Azerbaijan and France took place in Paris, in the Elysee Palace… A detailed exchange of opinions on settling the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict took place," the press service said in a statement.
Aliyev also addressed the issue while speaking to reporters after the close of the meeting, stressing that Armenia, which Azerbaijan considers to be occupying the region's territory, should resume talks and move away from the status quo.
"The UN Security Council adopted four resolutions on this conflict, which state that Armenian forces must immediately and unconditionally pull out of the occupied territories… Armenia is apparently not interested in fulfilling these resolutions. So talks must resume to start with. Armenia should not shy away from talks," the president said, as quoted in the statement.
The conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh began in 1988, when the autonomous region sought to secede from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, before proclaiming independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The warring sides agreed to a cessation of hostilities in 1994.