Azerbaijani’s friends acting in France expressed a protest against the illegal visit of the presidential candidate of this country from the Republican Party Valerie Pekress together with the French deputies of Trunk Reetayo and Michel Barnier to the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijan State Committee for working with the diaspora.
In a statement signed by the President of Azerbaijan’s Friends Association in France, Vice-President of the Friendship of France-Azerbaijan, in the National Assembly of France, Zherom Lambov, clearly states that this step Valerie Pekress is provocative, since the city of Hankendi is recognized by international structures as part territory of Azerbaijan.
“A trip to this territory is impossible to imagine without sovereign authorities of Azerbaijan. If Mrs. Pekress wants to protect the world, it must start with re-examining the lessons of history. Making a trip to the Karabakh and breaking the sovereignty of Azerbaijan, she reaches provocation and deprives himself the right to play that or a different role in peaceful creation, “the report says.
It is noted that Azerbaijan, like France, is a secular state.
“So we cannot understand why these statements made during the election campaign are aimed at inflaming the notorious religious threat against the eastern Christians. Christians live in the territory of Azerbaijan, where in recent years His Holiness Papa has committed several visits in the conditions of absolute peace and tranquility “, – noted in the statement.
The Association brings to the attention that the Karabakh conflict was a purely territorial conflict between the two states.
“for thirty years of Armenia, despite the condemnation of the UN Security Council, the military path held under the occupation, one can say, 20% of the territory of Azerbaijan.” The statement notes that after recovery last year, the cessation of fire, the return of these territories should be regarded as a victory of international law, just as France freed the Elsace Lorraine from the German occupying forces, “the message.
Association of Friends of Azerbaijan believes that “France and its representatives for the desire for a sustainable world need, respecting elementary norms of international law, demonstrate their impartiality. Mrs. Pekress deliberately forgot about it in his small political calculations, it is far from being a decent position involving, according to it, responsibility in search of the world. “