Tensions are growing between Baku and Paris. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev accused France of “preparing the ground for a new war” in the Caucasus by “arming” Armenia, of which it is a historic supporter, according to a press release published Tuesday, November 21.
Paris is “destabilizing” the region by “arming” Armenia and “preparing the ground for a new war in our region”, declared Ilham Aliev. Tensions have been at their highest since Azerbaijan’s lightning reconquest in September of Nagorno-Karabakh, a separatist territory that Baku and Yerevan have fought over for more than three decades.