MONNIER: FRANCE DOESN’T RECOGNIZE NAGORNO-KARABAKH’S INDEPENDENCE

Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
March 6 2015

6 March 2015 – 1:48pm

France doesn’t recognize the independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh
region of Azerbaijan, which is occupied by Armenia. Paris continuously
supports the ongoing mediation process of the OSCE Minsk Group
co-chairs to find a peaceful settlement to the conflict, the ambassador
of France to Azerbaijan, Pascal Monnier, said today.

The ambassador was commenting on the remarks made by three members
of the so-called France-Nagorno-Karabakh parliamentary friendship
group – the senators Sophie Joissains and Michel Amiel, and the
mayor of the town of Bourg-les-Valence, Marlene Mourier, in support
of the recognition of the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh by the
international community which were posted on the website of the French
weekly magazine L’Express.

“If a French senator is asking for recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh’s
independence, he is expressing a personal opinion that doesn’t engage
the French Republic,” Trend cited Pascal Monnier as saying.

France doesn’t have any relations with the ‘authorities’ in
Nagorno-Karabakh, the diplomat stressed.