(MENAFN- AzerNews) By Vugar Khalilov
President Emmanuel Macron's false allegations are undermining
France's mediation role in the Azerbaijani-Armenian peace talks,
Azernews reports, citing the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry.
The Ministry made the statement in response to Macron's
anti-Azerbaijani remarks in his televised interview on October
12.
The ministry emphasized that the claims, largely addressed to
the domestic audiences, explicitly defend Armenia and are
unacceptable.
“We reject the French president's groundless charges against
Azerbaijan,” the ministry stressed.
It went on to say that Emmanuel Macron is the president of the
country that has not condemned Armenia's occupation of Azerbaijani
territories for nearly 30 years.
Despite the fact that his country is a co-chair of the OSCE
Minsk Group, the French president has said nothing about Armenia's
illegal activities in the formerly occupied lands, its gross
violation of Azerbaijan's territorial integrity, and the rights of
hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis, as well as Armenia's
disrespect for fundamental principles of international law, and its
failure to implement the UN Security Council resolutions, the
ministry recalled.
Unfortunately, the French president remains tight-lipped on
Armenia's refusal to fulfill the provisions of the trilateral
statement posing threat to the regional security by planting mines
in Azerbaijani lands.
Azerbaijan, for its part, despite the Minsk Group's inability to
function, did not reject the French president's mediation
initiatives for the rehabilitation of ties with Armenia, and so
far, two quadrilateral meetings have been held under Macron's
auspices (February 4, 2022, and October 6, 2022).
“However, the French president's views on Azerbaijan call into
doubt his neutrality and impartiality of the mediation efforts,”
the ministry stressed.
In light of Azerbaijan's attempts to ensure regional peace,
stability, and prosperity by restoring ties based on international
legal principles, France's one-sided stance and unjustified
accusations compel to rethink this country's mediation efforts, the
statement added.
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