Cooperation is carried out in such areas as energy (Total), environment (Suez CNIM), transport (Alstom, Thales, Iveco, SYSTRA), agriculture (Lactalis, Danone), space industry (Airbus, Thales), gas sector, security, culture, hotel business (Accor), banking (Societe Generale), aviation, etc.

[2] The French-Azerbaijani inter-parliamentary friendship group, headed by Pierre Alain Raphan, operates in the National Assembly of France.

During his visit, the President of Azerbaijan met with his French counterpart, as well as the leadership of the Parliament, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, representatives of industrial and other spheres of the country.

In October 1996, Herve de Charette, the French Foreign Minister, paid an official visit to Azerbaijan, during which the developing Azerbaijani-French relations were noted at meetings.

In addition to the oil contract, the parties also signed agreements in the field of air transport, free entry and exit, and culture.

In November 2002, the presidents of the two countries met at the Prague NATO Euro-Atlantic partnership summit and discussed the issue of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

During his visit to France in May 2006 to participate in the session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Ilham Aliyev also met with the French President after the talks in Rambouillet.

During the visit, agreements were signed between the two countries in the field of scientific cooperation, civil defense, aeronautics, tourism, the place of women and children in society, etc.

A wide range of issues of bilateral cooperation and the negotiation process for the peaceful settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict were discussed at the meeting.

[citation needed] On February 11, 2011, Ilham Aliyev met with the French Secretary of transport Pieri Mariani.

[2] On September 3, 2015, the official opening of the "Azerbaijan town" organized by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation took place on the Parisian square of the Palais Royal in front of the Louvre.

[14] In April 2016, Mehriban Aliyeva met with a French delegation headed by the President of the Society of Friends of Azerbaijan in France, Jean Francois Mansel.

[1] In July 2019, Ilham Aliyev met with French economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire in Baku.

[16] On September 30, 2019, the French delegation headed by the Chairman of the France-Caucasus friendship group and the vice-chairman for Azerbaijan-Alain Juper to Azerbaijan.

Among the topics discussed were the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Franco-Azerbaijani relations, regional affairs, the Middle East, the EU-Azerbaijan, energy, and broader reform initiatives of the Azerbaijani President.

[20] On November 26, 2015, at the initiative of the Ministry of economy and industry, an Azerbaijani-French business meeting was organized within the framework of the visit of the delegation headed by the State Secretary for regional reforms under the Minister of Decentralization and Public service Andre Vallini to Azerbaijan.

At the meeting held in the Baku Business Center, the work done on the establishment of the Azerbaijani-French Regional Cooperation Council was discussed.

Within the framework of the exhibition, an adviser to the Minister of Defense Industry of Azerbaijan Farrukh Vezirov met with the heads of French companies such as Nexter, Thales, CS Communication, Lacroix and others.

[6] France is one of the co-chair States (along with the US and Russia) of the OSCE Minsk Group, which is a mediator in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

[4] In October 2014, at the initiative of the French government, talks were held in Paris between Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan on the issue of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

On July 6, an evening of classical music was held as part of the project of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation to preserve and promote Azerbaijani culture in the world.

The exhibition featured works by Azerbaijani artists Latif Kerimov, Vugar Muradov, Butunay Hagverdiev and Elchin Veliyev.