French President Emmanuel Macron has defended France’s supplying of arms to Armenia, noting that it’s aimed at avoiding war, in response to a question from an Azerbaijani state media reporter.
“If you look at the past decade, it seems that Azerbaijan did equip itself much more than Armenia. And if my memory is right, but correct me if I am wrong, Azerbaijan did launch a war, and a terrible one, in 2020. It is normal to just answer the request of a sovereign country which wants to equip itself and feels it can be aggressed by another one,” said Macron at a press conference on the sidelines of the 4th European Political Community Summit in UK.
“I never heard from Prime Minister Pashinyan that he had any project of war or aggression,” he said.
“I think that cooperating from the military point of view with a country is something totally normal between sovereign states. The perspective of Armenia is peace, the perspective of France is peace, I do hope the perspective of Azerbaijan is peace. And if the two countries finalize a peace treaty, we will back such a treaty,” stated the French President.
