Azerbaijan Escalates Conflict With France in Pacific Over Armenia Arms Supply
- Azerbaijani group backs ending Paris rule in French islands
- France will provide Yerevan howitzers in latest weapons deal
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Azerbaijan is escalating a conflict with France that’s playing out in French territories in the Pacific, Caribbean and Latin America over weapons the European nation has supplied to Armenia.
The Baku Initiative Group, an organization linked to the Azerbaijani government, is agitating for an end to Paris’s rule in many of its overseas regions, supporting pro-independence activists in places like French Polynesia and New Caledonia.