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France rules out recognition of separatist Nagorno-Karabakh’s independence

01 June 2015 [13:07] - TODAY.AZ

/By AzerNews/

By Sara Rajabova

Paris has ruled out recognizing the separatist regime of Nagorno-Karabakh, established in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.

The French Foreign Ministry spokesman said France's position on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is completely clear and unchangeable.

“We do not recognize the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh and do not have any relations with those persons who call themselves the" ruling circle”, Roman Nadal said during a press conference on May 31.

The French official made the remarks in connection with the signing of the "friendly charter" with French cities during the visit of the de facto leader of Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Earlier, Baku sent a protest note to France in connection with a visit of the head of the separatist regime in Azerbaijan’s occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region to France.

France is one of the co-chair countries of the OSCE Minsk Group who has been tasked with mediating a peaceful resolution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in a conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions.

A fragile ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing efforts by U.S, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.

Armenia has not yet implemented any of the four U.N. Security Council resolutions provisioning its pullout from neighboring country's territories.

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