Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon made a phone call to President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on April 23.

The UN Secretary-General expressed regret that he could not attend the 7th Global Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations to be held in Baku due to some global problems, wished success to the Forum, and said he was looking forward to addressing the event through video conference.

President Ilham Aliyev thanked for the phone call, and expressed the country`s satisfaction over successive cooperation with the UN.

During the phone call, the issues over current situation in the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict were discussed.