NAGORNO-KARABAKH, 29 November 2020, (TON): Azerbaijan and France are having worst relations after French upper house on 25 November adopted a nonbinding resolution calling on France to recognize the separatist region as an independent state.

The French senators' nonbinding resolution called on the French government to recognize the "Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh" as an independent state. The resolution suggested that recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh as a state could be used as “an instrument of negotiations for the purpose of establishing a lasting peace.”

In reaction, Azerbaijani lawmakers on 26 November called for France to be expelled from the Minsk Group mediating in the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute after the French Senate backed the breakaway region's independence claim. The lawmakers urged the government to appeal to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which oversees the Minsk Group, to expel France from its presidency.

France, together with Russia and the United States, co-chairs the Minsk Group, which has led talks seeking a solution to the conflict for decades but has failed to achieve a lasting agreement.

France and many Western countries are arming and financing self proclaimed "Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh" to create unrest in the region.