State Security Service: France is creating a spy network in Azerbaijan. Head of the department: Paris is inciting Yerevan to “another war.” Ilham Aliyev noted that France is “preparing the ground” for destabilizing the situation in the South Caucasus and a new armed conflict in the region.
On December 26, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry declared two employees of the French Embassy in Baku persona non grata. The next day, the French Foreign Ministry rejected the accusations brought by Azerbaijan against two embassy employees.