The Azerbaijani embassy in France has passed a protest note to the
French Foreign Ministry for visiting Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory
occupied by Armenia, Trend cites press-secretary of the Azerbaijani
Foreign Ministry Elman Abdullayev as saying.
France said that the visit was organized by the chairman of the
commission for national security and armed forces of the National
Assembly of France. The chairman is a mayor of two districts in
Marseilles.
France says that the visit was not a demonstration of solidarity with
the separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh. In the response note, the French
Foreign Ministry says that the protest does not improve bilateral
relations, especially since France is a co-chair of the OSCE Minsk
Group.
