Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev accused France on November 21 of creating conditions for a new war in the South Caucasus by supplying arms to Armenia. France said last month it had agreed new contracts to supply military equipment to Armenia. Baku and Yerevan have fought two wars in the past three decades but Aliyev scored a major victory in September by recapturing the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, where ethnic Armenians had enjoyed de facto independence since the early 1990s. More than 100,000 of them have since fled to Armenia.
Azerbaijan Says France Laying Ground For New Regional War By Arming Armenia
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev delivers a speech during a parade in Khankendi, also known by Armenians as Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh, on November 8.