Oct 11, 2023. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
BAKU, Azerbaijan
The recent statement by the President of France that Azerbaijan has
problems with international law can only cause laughter, President of the
Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said, as he received the participants of
the 53rd meeting of the Council of Heads of Security Agencies and Special
Services of the CIS member countries.
"Speaking about France, I would also like to note the destructive and provocative role of the leadership of this country during the entire period since 2020 and now.
Numerous accusations, groundless threats and blackmail against Azerbaijan
have had no effect.
The recent statement by the President of France that Azerbaijan has
problems with international law can only cause laughter.
Azerbaijan has not violated international law. We fought on our territory,
we suppressed separatism, we observed all humanitarian norms and all Geneva
Conventions.
In fact, international law has been violated for 30 years by France's
protégé and today's main ally, Armenia, which occupied the territory of another
state.
And as the saying goes, one should see the log in one's own eye before
seeing a straw in someone else’s eye.
One and a half million Algerians were exterminated by the French regime
just because they were Algerians and Muslims.
That is genocide. Not to mention France's bloody crimes across Africa, in
other parts of Africa and around the world.
And the fact that France still
retains its colonies to this day is incomprehensible. Azerbaijan, as the Chair
of the Non-Aligned Movement, and I personally raised this issue at the summits
of the Non-Aligned Movement.
And this country, which has a bloody colonial past, which some African
countries cannot get rid of to this day no matter how hard they try, accuses us
of violating international law. This is absurd," President Ilham Aliyev
said, as Trend reports.
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