No sovereign state would tolerate an unlawful military presence in its territory and Azerbaijan is no exception.

Speaker of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova made this point in her conversation with President of the French National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet in Dublin.

According to Mrs Gafarova, the Armenian armed forces are being disarmed and their withdrawal from our territories continues today. Those troops have thousands of weapons and military equipment, which goes to show that Azerbaijan was right when appealing to international community about their removal from our lands.

Speaker Sahiba Gafarova reminded the head of the French Parliament of the several letters to that effect that Mrs Gafarova had sent to Mrs Braun-Pivet as Head of the Parliament of Azerbaijan. Having met with her in the capital of Ireland now, Mrs Gafarova reiterated to her French colleague that Azerbaijan wanted peace and stability.

The Chair of the Milli Majlis told Mrs Braun-Pivet of the current dialogue about integrating the Armenian residents of Garabagh in the Azerbaijani society and that there had been two meetings of representatives of Azerbaijan and the Garabagh Armenian community in a short while. The Armenian populace of Garabagh are citizens of Azerbaijan; so, their rights will be provided as per the Azerbaijani legislation and the international obligations assumed by our country, according to Sahiba Gafarova. Nobody is forcing them to leave Garabagh. If anyone does want to depart, this is his or her own choice whilst Azerbaijan ensures their free passage and security, for its part.

Sahiba Gafarova also informed Yaël Braun-Pivet of the restoration of that territory’s infrastructure already initiated by Azerbaijan, the humanitarian aid including food, medicines and fuel sent to the population and the International Committee of the Red Cross carrying aid in by the Lachin and Aghdam roads.

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