“Instead of maintaining peace in the region, France supplies weapons and ammunition to Armenia... France does not limit itself to this, in order to achieve its goal, through representatives of its intelligence service, it attracts various persons to secret cooperation, forms a spy network, and acts to the detriment of the national security of Azerbaijan,” - he told reporters.
The State Security Service of Azerbaijan exposed these activities, immediately taking “necessary and adequate steps,” Nagiyev said.
According to the head of the department, Paris is inciting Yerevan to “another war, trying to implement its plan to turn the South Caucasus into a battlefield.”
“We must always be prepared for new challenges and all sorts of scenarios of negative processes taking place in our region, and not lose vigilance in matters of reliable security,” TASS quotes him.
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 and responded by declaring two Azerbaijani diplomats persona non grata.
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.