Azerbaijan walks out of francophone summit over distorted statements

On the Francophonie Summit, Armenian International Minister Ararat Mirzoyan made a provocative assertion stuffed with falsehoods, mentioned an Azerbaijani International Ministry assertion.

The ministry mentioned that with the direct help of France, unilateral, malicious, and distorted provocative statements had been made towards Azerbaijan in first drafts of the Djerba Declaration, named after the Tunisian island internet hosting the summit.

“As a result of intervention of quite a few member states in the course of the draft doc dialogue, the accusations towards our nation had been faraway from the texts, and phrases explicitly concentrating on Azerbaijan weren’t permitted to be included within the drafts. Nevertheless, there are nonetheless some parts within the last model of the doc that don’t fall underneath the authority of the group and provide an opportunity for Armenia’s weapons of political propaganda,” the ministry continued.

Later, the ministry mentioned, “the draft assertion was approved for submission to the summit with out contemplating the complaints, thereby going towards the decision-making procedures and taking member states’ attitudes into consideration. The representatives who opposed the decision on this case walked out of the assembly chamber,” it mentioned.

“It’s utterly unacceptable that an establishment, of which Azerbaijan shouldn’t be a member or observer, whose fundamental objective is to advertise French and French tradition around the globe and which is managed underneath France’s affect, is used for negotiating issues past its authority and for politically malicious functions,” the ministry added.

It decried how texts to be adopted by Francophone member nations on the summit can be politically skewed and irrelevant however that Azerbaijan needs to specific gratitude to all states that acted consistent with worldwide regulation and rules throughout dialogue of the declaration.

Azerbaijan and Armenia

Relations between the previous Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan have been tense since 1991, when the Armenian army occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory internationally acknowledged as a part of Azerbaijan.

In fall 2020, in 44 days of clashes, Baku liberated a number of cities, villages, and settlements in Karabakh from Armenian occupation, ending in a Moscow-brokered truce. The battle’s peace settlement is well known as a triumph in Azerbaijan.

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