Azerbaijan sends protest note to France over humanitarian aid to Artsakh

French Ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne Bouillon was summoned to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry in connection with sending humanitarian aid to Artsakh, she was handed a protest note.

The statement of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry notes that the ambassador “was handed a note of protest in connection with the dispatch of vehicles under the guise of “humanitarian cargo” accompanied by the leaders of a number of French cities and the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo in the direction of the Lachin checkpoint, and the provocative statements against Azerbaijan voiced by these persons.”

“Such actions threaten the fragile normalization process in the region, promoted by the active efforts of international actors,” the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said in a statement.