(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 6. France
began its colonization with genocide by deporting Africans, Member
of the National Assembly of France from French Guiana Jean-Victor
Castor told trend .
"Guiana is still considered a military colony of
France. We want to free Guiana from colonization and get support
from other countries as well. Today, as a result of colonization, a
dramatic situation has developed. France wants the local population
to become impoverished, preventing us from using our own resources.
At the international level, France has blocked us in all areas. We
study only the history and geography of France. We cannot exercise
our own laws and rights. Even our right to vote was unanimously
rejected by France," he added.
Within the framework of the ministerial meeting of the
Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement, an event on the
topic of "Towards the Complete Elimination of Colonialism" has
being held today at Baku Convention Center.
Meanwhile, speaking at the ministerial meeting of the
Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement yesterday,
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said that one of the countries
that still is pursuing the neo-colonialism is France.
“French administered territories outside Europe are nasty
remains of the French colonial empire. France must respect the
sovereignty of the Comoros over the island of Mayotte as well as
the rights of the New Caledonian people and other peoples in French
overseas communities and territories,” President Ilham Aliyev
said.
President Ilham Aliyev pointed out that France has to apologize
for its colonial past and bloody colonial crimes and acts of
genocide against NAM member countries in Africa, South-East Asia
and other places.
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