Azerbaijan’s parliament called on Thursday for France to be stripped of its mediation role in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to punish the French Senate for adopting a resolution backing the region’s independence.
The French resolution adopted on November 25 followed a Russia-brokered ceasefire ending weeks of fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, part of Azerbaijan mainly populated by ethnic Armenians.
The ceasefire has been hailed as a victory in Azerbaijan, which recovered control of large swathes of territory held by Armenians since the early 1990s.
The Azeri parliament urged its government to review ties with Paris and to appeal to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to revoke France’s role as a co-chair of the so-called Minsk Group, set up in 1992 to mediate the conflict. The United States and Russia are the other co-chairs.
The Azeri foreign ministry said the French Senate resolution, which has no legal force, had tainted France’s reputation as a fair mediator and cast doubt on its neutrality. It described the resolution as a provocation and said it was biased....
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