"We come for the soonest settlement of the Karabakh conflict, however we are sure that the problem cannot be solved by force," Mohammad Khatami emphasized in the course of a meeting with Ilham Aliyev.

It should be noted that on the post of the French Ambassador to the OSCE Minsk Group Bernard Fassier has replaced Henry Jackolin, who had retired.

On Friday, the underground Talish information agency "Talishpress" announced that a number of Baku high-ranking officials sponsor shadow trade between Azerbaijan and Armenia. According to the source, oil supplied to Armenian market is provided by companies controlled by Azeri Economic Development Minister Farkhad Aliev and the chairman of State Committee on Securities Heidar Babayev. They also say that the supplies of tea, vegetable oil and fish are supplied to Armenia under the sponsorship of Kamalladin Heidarov, the chairman of the State Customs
Committee of Azerbaijan. As for the grain supply, it is sponsored by the head of president's administration Ramiz Mekhtiev. The source doesn't point to any facts that could prove those conclusions. The attempt to discredit Azeri leaders by means of exposing their links with Armenians is quite typical for the ideologists of Talish separatism.