BAKU (Reuters) – An Azerbaijani parliamentary committee called on the government on Thursday to suspend all economic ties with France to protest what it described as an “anti-Azerbaijani” vote by the French Senate. The Foreign Affairs Committee demands the withdrawal of projects in Azerbaijan from the French group TotalEnergies, which holds a 35% stake in the Absheron gas field, the second largest in the country.
The French Senate adopted on Wednesday a proposed resolution condemning the military offensive led by Azerbaijan last September against the separatist enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, populated mainly by Armenians.
The text aims in particular to “establish a sanctions regime at European level targeting Azerbaijani officials and to prevent any other attempt at aggression and violation of the territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia, by giving it the means to ensure his defense. France, where the Armenian diaspora is one of the largest in the world, has been one of Armenia’s main supporters, supplying arms to Yerevan and regularly opposing Azerbaijan over the Upper East Coast issue. Karabakh.
(Reporting Nailia Bagirova in Baku, written by Felix Light in Tbilisi, Diana Mandiá, edited by Sophie Louet)
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