Ilham Aliyev: "France has nothing to do with relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia"

"Unfortunately, despite the fact that Azerbaijan agreed to hold a quadrilateral meeting, including the participation of the French President, France has nothing to do with the relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia. because of this, there was no need for the services of the Minsk group, and these services, as I have already said, if it is possible to say so, were services that brought more harm than good, the Minsk group did not do anything, not even a centimeter of land in our territory was liberated, - Azerbaijan is good showing his determination, he allowed the President of France to participate in this meeting".

Qazet.az reports that President Ilham Aliyev said this during his speech at the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Astana on October 14.

"As for the participation of the President of the Council of the European Union, as you know, several trilateral meetings have already been held in Brussels, and in principle, we have always supported the efforts of the European Union in the normalization of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations. However, despite the goodwill shown by Azerbaijan, almost a week after the meeting in Prague, France The President made insulting, unacceptable, false and provocative statements. These statements are in the press, everyone can see them. In these statements, he said that Azerbaijan has waged a terrible war, thereby manipulating the facts and trying to confuse France and the world community. Azerbaijan is an international was waging a war in its own territory, which is recognized at the highest level. Karabakh is recognized by the whole world as an integral part of Azerbaijan. We used the right of self-defense and restored our territorial integrity at the expense of force," the head of state said.