"The present three Minsk group co-chairs are optimal variant to settle the conflict". The head of the department of foreign relations of the Azerbaijani president's administration Novruz Mamedov has stated this commenting France's role in the Minsk group. It should be reminded, earlier in Baku there were some calls to refuse France's peacekeeping mission, as France allegedly can not be impartial mediator since it has an influential Armenian community. Mamedov has expressed his disagreement with the opinion that Moscow and Washington have a more influential role in the Minsk group than Paris. The representative of Aliyev's administration has expressed hope that France's change of its representative will have positive effects on the Karabakh conflict settlement process.