The spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan (MFA), Aykhan Hajizada, said that the statements by Catherine Colonna, the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, “show a one-sided pro-Armenian position and do not serve peace and stability in the region; they are unacceptable.”
Continuing Azerbaijan’s policy of denying the severe consequences of its ongoing blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijan MFA spox claimed that “the Republic of Azerbaijan is making efforts, within the framework of national legislation, to reintegrate the Armenian residents living in the Karabakh region into the political, social, and economic spheres of our country, and it is absolutely wrong to obstruct this efforts and to declare that as if a policy is being pursued [by Azerbaijan] to remove Armenian residents from the region.”
“Once again, we call on the French side to put an end to such inflammatory and provocative statements,” Hajizada added.
