BAKU: Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev accused France on Tuesday of creating conditions for a new war in the South Caucasus by supplying arms to Armenia.
Aliyev used a speech at a conference on decolonization in Baku to deliver a scathing broadside against France, which said last month it had agreed new contracts to supply military equipment to Armenia.
“France destabilizes not only its past and present colonies but also our region, the South Caucasus, by supporting separatist tendencies and separatists,” Aliyev said.