French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday September 30 "concerned" by Turkey's "warlike" declarations on Nagorno-Karabakh, the scene since Monday of heavy fighting between Azerbaijani forces and separatists backed by Armenia . 

Turkey said on Tuesday it was determined to help Azerbaijan "recover its occupied lands and defend its rights and interests under international law" in Nagorno-Karabakh.

"I have noted Turkey's political statements which I think are reckless and dangerous," Emmanuel Macron said at a press conference in the Latvian capital Riga. 

"France remains extremely concerned about the warlike messages that Turkey has had in recent hours, basically uninhibiting Azerbaijan in what would be a reconquest of North Karabakh and that we will not accept," he insisted. .

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Military escalation

Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on Tuesday of opening fire on remote positions in Nagorno-Karabakh, where fighting continued for the third day in a row, and ruled out peace talks at this stage despite international pressures.

"At this stage, we do not have specific elements that allow us to speak of a regionalization of the conflict and to attribute all the acts", said Emmanuel Macron, while announcing his intention to speak on Wednesday to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Thursday to US President Donald Trump, who co-chairs the Minsk group on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with France.

Turkey considers Armenia to occupy the disputed region through separatists hostile to Baku, who proclaimed themselves a republic there in 1991 when the Soviet Union fell.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for an end to the Armenian "occupation" of Nagorno-Karabakh to end the deadly fighting.

By supporting Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, France approves the Armenian occupation of this separatist region of Azerbaijan, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Avusoglu also said on Wednesday in an interview with the agency. press release Anatolia.

The UN Security Council for its part called Tuesday in a unanimous declaration for an "immediate end to the fighting".

With AFP and Reuters

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