ANKARA – The Azerbaijani Parliament yesterday slammed a resolution by the French Senate urging the recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh as “a republic”, Anadolu Agency reported.
“This step of the French Senate does not fit into the commitments undertaken by France within the global strategy on the EU (European Union) foreign and security policy, including documents on the territorial integrity of countries consistently adopted since 2016 by the EU Council,” said Parliament in a statement.
The statement stressed that such a republic had not been recognised.
“The implementation of the provisions of this resolution has the potential to make a crushing blow to the EU and its Eastern Partnership programme,” it added.
Parliament underlined that one of the main reasons for the “unresolvedness” of the nearly three-decade-long Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was the states that played the role of international mediator in peace negotiations, in particular France, “didn’t call the aggressor (by) their name, didn’t differentiate between the occupier and the occupied”.
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe Minsk Group – co-chaired by France, Russia and the US – was formed in 1992 to find a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but to no avail.
The National Assembly went on to say that a Russia-brokered trilateral agreement signed by the president of Azerbaijan, Russia, and the prime minister of Armenia on November 10 put an end to the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and the occupation of Azerbaijani lands, as well as opened the way for the further development of the South Caucasus region.
The peace deal “restored the superiority” of the norms and principles of international law, it said. – Bernama, November 27, 2020
