BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 29. We have strong cultural relations between Azerbaijan and France, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said addressing the international conference under the motto “South Caucasus: Development and Cooperation”, Trend reports.
"Actually, we have strong cultural relations between two countries and the history of our cooperation actually demonstrates that in culture and in education. We really had very good progress and several important events. Many times, there have been cultural presentations and cultural days of Azerbaijan in different French cities. I can tell you that I don’t remember exactly, but I think it is more than 10 sister cities between French cities and Azerbaijani cities. It is not formal, but really there was a big public traffic. Also, looking at education and as part of culture, it was our initiative that led to the creation of a French lyceum in Baku in one of the most beautiful places of our city just overlooking the Caspian Sea. Then, subsequently, when we agreed with the then President Francois Holland to create a French-Azerbaijani university, we did it within one year and also, it is already working with very good results. So, we really had very diversified cultural relations and they are still there. They had not been subject of certain recent developments," the head of state said.