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President Emmanuel Macron received ambassador Anne Boillon in Paris to discuss the issue, the foreign ministry said in a statement, accusing Azerbaijan of continuing “in recent months unilateral actions damaging to the relationship between our two countries”.<\/p>\n
Relations between Azerbaijan and France — a traditional ally of Armenia and host itself to a significant Armenian diaspora community — have long been plagued by tensions focused on the Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh.<\/p>\n
Seized by Armenian separatists in a war as the USSR fell, Azerbaijani forces regained control of much of the region in a 2020 conflict and then the remaining part in the lightning September 2023 offensive.<\/p>\n
Macron and other French officials have long voiced concern Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will not stop there and has designs on Armenian territory.<\/p>\n
In his meeting with Boillon, the French president said he “regretted Azerbaijan’s actions and expressed a wish for clarification by the Azerbaijani side of its intentions”, the foreign ministry said.<\/p>\n
There have been attempts to move forward talks on normalising relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia but these so far have made little progress.<\/p>\n
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“France reiterates its support for the normalisation of relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia, while respecting international law and the territorial integrity of the two countries,” the ministry said.<\/p>\n
As relations with Moscow fray, Armenia is also increasingly relying on defence cooperation with France.<\/p>\n
In February, Armenia agreed a deal for the purchase of precision rifles from French arms manufacturer PGM, though its price tag was not disclosed.<\/p>\n
In October 2023, France announced the sale of defence equipment — three radar systems and night vision goggles — to Armenia, provoking anger from Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n
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