Paris struck a take care of Yerevan earlier this month to provide it with navy assist
France’s transfer to provide navy assist to Armenia might inflame tensions within the South Caucasus and result in recent battle, Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev has mentioned.
Aliyev has been essential of the European Union’s (EU) place on Baku’s dispute with Yerevan, and pulled out of EU-brokered talks scheduled with Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan earlier this month. On the summit, Brussels mentioned it was standing by Armenia within the regional dispute.
In a phone name with the President of the European Council Charles Michel, Aliyev was essential of the EU’s place, and significantly that of France, in accordance with a press release issued by Baku on Saturday.
“As a result of well-known place of France, Azerbaijan didn’t take part within the assembly in Granada,” the assertion from the workplace of the Azerbaijani president mentioned.
“The pinnacle of state emphasised that the supply of weapons by France to Armenia was an method that was not serving peace however one meant to inflate a brand new battle, and if any new battle happens within the area, France can be accountable for inflicting it.”
Throughout an October 3 diplomatic go to to Yerevan, France’s International Minister Catherine Colonna agreed on the supply of future contracts with Armenia to provide navy property, which, she mentioned, will assist guarantee its defenses. Individually, French President Emmanuel Macron had criticism for Azerbaijan, saying Baku appears to have difficulties following acknowledged worldwide legislation.
Aliyev’s feedback observe Azerbaijan’s 24-hour navy operation within the breakaway area of Nagorno-Karabakh final month, which triggered a mass exodus of about 120,000 ethnic Armenians within the area, most of whom went to Armenia.
The Azerbaijani president insisted that he had acted in keeping with worldwide legislation, saying that eight villages in Azerbaijan remained “beneath Armenian occupation” and emphasizing the significance of liberating them.
The previous Soviet states have been concerned in a decades-long geopolitical rivalry, largely on account of Azerbaijan’s internationally acknowledged borders being dwelling to tens of 1000’s of ethnic Armenians.
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