French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced Wednesday, October 7 that talks are scheduled for Thursday in Geneva and Monday in Moscow as part of efforts by France, Russia and the United States to try to open negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh.

"We want everyone to understand that their interest is to immediately stop hostilities without conditionality and that we open a negotiation" under the sponsorship of France, Russia and the United States, explained Jean-Yves Le Drian before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly.

 "We are in daily contact with each other. For the moment, it has not been successful. There will be meetings tomorrow in Geneva and other meetings on Monday in Moscow and we hope that it will succeed. upon opening of negotiations. "

"Turkey's military involvement"

Jean-Yves Le Drian also denounced a "military involvement of Turkey which risks fueling the internationalization of the conflict" in this separatist region of Azerbaijan with a majority Armenian.

Armenian separatist enclave within Azerbaijan, a neighboring country of Iran, the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is the scene of fierce fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces.

French President Emmanuel Macron recently denounced what he presented as a deployment in Nagorno-Karabakh of "Syrian fighters from jihadist groups" who, according to French intelligence, had passed through Turkey.

The latter has not reacted publicly to these accusations.

The head of French diplomacy deplored "a large number of civilian casualties for weak territorial advances on the part of Azerbaijan, since it was Azerbaijan which initiated the conflict".

He again called for an immediate end to the fighting and a return to the negotiating table of the belligerents, "without conditionality", under the aegis of the so-called Minsk mediation group co-chaired by France, Russia and the United States. United.

With Reuters and AFP

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