{"id":2438,"date":"2015-05-21T21:45:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T21:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2015-05-21T21:45:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T21:45:54","slug":"azerbaijan-summons-frances-ambassador-over-nagorno-karabakh-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/azerbaijan-summons-frances-ambassador-over-nagorno-karabakh-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan summons France\u2019s ambassador over Nagorno-Karabakh dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Azerbaijan has summoned France\u2019s ambassador to protest a recent visit by a leader of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region to Paris, accusing the French government of double standards.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pascal Meunier was handed a note Wednesday, in which Azerbaijan\u2019s Foreign Ministry expressed its dismay about the French government\u2019s meeting with Bako Sahakyan, the leader of Nagorno-Karabakh region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThese kinds of situations are contrary to the spirit of relations between Azerbaijan and France, and harm the solution of a dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia,\u201d Azeri Deputy Foreign Minister Halef Halefov said in a statement after the meeting with Meunier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Halefov warned that such moves could seriously harm Baku-Paris relationship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Azerbaijan and Armenia have yet to find a permanent settlement to the decade-long conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deadly war in the 1990s which killed\u00a030,000 people from both sides saw the ethnic Armenian troops capture the entire area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1994, Russia brokered a ceasefire although the Armenians remain in control of most of the enclave. The two countries have since been engaged in peace talks which are mediated by Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tensions have mounted over the past months with more than a dozen people\u00a0being killed and 18 wounded in a new spiral of violence between the two neighbors since early January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Baku, whose\u00a0military spending is much higher\u00a0than Yerevan, has threatened to recapture the region by force. Armenia, backed by Russia, has downplayed\u00a0the threats, saying it can\u00a0appropriately\u00a0respond to any offensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azerbaijan has summoned France\u2019s ambassador to protest a recent visit by a leader of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[144,143,75,64,5,48],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-armenia","tag-azerbaijan","tag-conflict","tag-france","tag-military","tag-territorial-dispute"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Azerbaijan-Halef-Halefov.jpg?fit=650%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-Dk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}