Azerbaijan`s first lady Mehriban Aliyeva met with a French delegation led by member of the National Assembly, President of the Association of Friends of Azerbaijan in France Jean-Francois Mancel.
Mehriban Aliyeva, who also heads the Working Group on Azerbaijani-French Inter-Parliamentary ties, said discussions at the UNAOC Global Forum in Baku focused on the themes that are of "global importance".
Aliyeva said that cooperation between Azerbaijan and France is based on friendship and mutual respect.
The first lady expressed confidence that the Forum would provide a crucial platform for addressing the issues that concern the international community and finding mechanisms of solving the existing problems.