(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 16. The Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan strongly rejected the resolution
adopted by the French Senate on 15 November, MFA said in a
statement on Wednesday, trend reports.
'The resolution adopted by the French Senate on November 15,
2022, called“The application of sanctions against Azerbaijan and
its immediate withdrawal from the territory of Armenia, the demand
to comply with the ceasefire agreement dated November 9, 2020, and
the promotion of all initiatives aimed at establishing sustainable
peace between the two countries,” is completely far from the truth,
reflects false and slanderous provisions, and having the character
of open provocation, serves to undermine the process of
normalization of relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
This resolution adopted by the Senate, while being a non-legally
binding, once again demonstrates the biased and one-sided political
position of France as a country that has declared its intention to
contribute to the normalization process.
In general, all the far-fetched claims mentioned in the
resolution are another indicator of the ignorance of its authors
about the historical facts and the current situation in the
region.
We emphasize with regret that the resolution of the upper
chamber of the French Parliament once again disregards Armenia's
occupation of the territories of Azerbaijan for nearly 30 years,
the massacres committed against the civilian population, the
looting of cities and villages, the brutal trampling of the rights
of hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons, the
implementation of ethnic cleansing policy by Armenia in the
historical lands of Azerbaijan, as well as Azerbaijan's
peace-building, restoration and reconstruction works following the
2020 Patriotic War.
Regarding the ludicrous ideas in the resolution about the
so-called“Nagorno Karabakh”, we once again remind the Senators
that the Karabakh region is an inalienable part of Azerbaijan as
its internationally recognized territory, the rights and security
of the Armenian population living in this region are an internal
matter of Azerbaijan, and these will be ensured in accordance with
the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The resolution of the Senate, by encouraging revanchist forces
in Armenia, does not serve peace, stability and development in the
region and is far from the“promotion of sustainable peace”
mentioned in the title of the resolution.
We strongly reject this subsequent resolution passed by the
French Senate,' the statement said.