BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 24. France causes detrimental effect to the prospects of advancing the peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan's Presidential Representative for Special Assignments Elchin Amirbayov said in an interview with BBC TV channel, Trend reports.
"France, which misusing its leading role in several international platforms like the UN Security Council, EU, its parliament, and even the International Organization of Francophonia has been initiating and promoting recently very biased anti-Azerbaijani initiatives processing from its narrow domestic agenda," Amirbayov noted.
"France is not only undermining its own credibility and that of the EU, but also causes detrimental effect to the prospects of advancing the peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan and undermining security in the South Caucasus. Armenia and Azerbaijan, I believe, are both tired of this confrontation and rivalry," he pointed out.
"Now as the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan has been restored, we have a big chance to advance the peace agenda and probably, to finalize the negotiations over the draft peace agreement by the end of the year if the circumstances allow and if we’re not distracted by external factors and outside players," he said.