Baku Urges France to Stop Unjustified Fake Campaign Against Azerbaijan

Baku on Friday urged France to stop an unjustified fake campaign against Azerbaijan.

“We firmly reject the views expressed by the French side, which, instead of learning from its failed foreign policy, is trying to divert public attention from the difficult situation it is in by accusing our country with unfounded allegations,” the spokesman for Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry, Aykhan Hajizada, said in a statement, The Caspian Post reports.

Hajizada was commenting on the biased allegations voiced by Manuel Valls, Minister of Overseas of France, during his visit to New Caledonia.

“We firmly reject the views expressed by the French side, which, instead of learning from its failed foreign policy, is trying to divert public attention from the difficult situation it is in by accusing our country with unfounded allegations,” he said.

“Although France unfairly blames Azerbaijan, which, unlike France, is guided by the fundamental norms and principles of international law in its foreign policy and in all its steps, everyone remembers this country’s undemocratic acts to continue its colonial past against different nations and peoples,” the spokesman stressed.

“To see who is actually involved in “foreign intervention,” one just needs to look at France’s stance concerning the historical opportunities that emerged in the South Caucasus for peace and the attempts to incite another escalation in the region by equipping Armenia with weaponry.”

“Accusations of “ethnic cleansing” by France against Azerbaijan against the backdrop of the fact that France was one of the co-chairs of the Minsk process while being responsible for the settlement of the former conflict, and this country has never condemned the displacement of about 1 million Azerbaijanis as a result of Armenia’s occupation policy, is quite strange, and claims that people who voluntarily left the Garabagh region of Azerbaijan are allegedly subjected to “ethnic cleansing” is nothing more than hypocrisy and distortion of facts in their own interests,” he added.

“We demand the French side to stop this unjustified fake campaign against our country,” Hajizada concluded.