French minister in Baku for talks on Nagorno-Karabakh

France's Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna began a visit to Azerbaijan on Wednesday to hold talks with longtime leader Ilham Aliyev on easing tensions with Baku's neighbour Armenia. 

Colonna is due to hold talks with Aliyev -- who became president after his father's death in 2003 -- and her Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov.After visiting Baku, Colonna will travel to Yerevan before making her way to Georgia's capital Tbilisi on Friday.