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French MFA: â€œParliamentariansâ€™ visit does not reflect Franceâ€™s policyâ€

24 August 2011 08:33 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Victoria Dementieva â€“ APA. â€œParliamentarians have been duly advised of our position with respect to Nagorno-Karabakh. Consequently, this visit does not in any way reflect or change Franceâ€™s policy with respect to this conflictâ€, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France said in its statement, APA reports.
â€œFrance, like all countries in the international community, including Armenia itself, does not recognize this territoryâ€™s independence. This territoryâ€™s international legal status can only be determined within the framework of a peaceful and equitable solution agreed upon by all parties concerned. France co-chairs the OSCE Minsk Group, together with the United States and Russia, and as such was tasked with helping to find a compromise based on the Helsinki Final Act and the proposals put forward by the French, American and Russian presidents on numerous occasions, notably during the G8 Summits in Lâ€™Aquila in 2009 and Muskoka in 2010â€, the statement reads.
The Embassy of Azerbaijan in France submitted a note of protest to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France concerning the illegal visit of a group of French parliamentarians to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan. Baku demanded official explanation concerning the visit of the French parliamentarians to Nagorno Karabakh.