Baku handed a note of protest to the French diplomat in connection with the illegal visit of the presidential candidate Valérie Pécress to the Azerbaijani city of Khankendi in the area of responsibility of Russian peacekeepers. The press service of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spead this message.
The French diplomat was informed that such actions "harm the Azerbaijani-French bilateral relations", have caused serious damage to France’s reputation in the region and to the role that Paris can play in the normalization of relations between Baku and Yerevan after the end of the conflict.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan drew attention to the fact that Pécress and the French citizens who accompanied her on her illegal trip were included in the "blacklist" of the authorities.
