Official Baku`s reaction to military-technical cooperation between  Armenia and France is puzzling - Yerevan 

ArmInfo.The reaction of official Baku to military-technical cooperation between Armenia and France is puzzling. Any country has the sovereign right to have an army armed with combat and modern military equipment. This is stated in a statement by the Armenian Foreign Ministry, against the backdrop of yesterday's threats made from Baku.

The Armenian Foreign Ministry recalled that the Republic of Armenia 

recognizes the territorial integrity and inviolability of the borders 

of all its neighbors.

"Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed at the highest level that they 

recognize each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty based on 

the 1991 Declaration of Alma-Ata. The Republic of Armenia adheres to 

this principle and has no ambitions beyond its internationally 

recognized territory of 29,743 square kilometers "The Republic of 

Armenia has proven this approach in practice by demarcating four 

villages in the Tavush region of the Republic of Armenia and the 

Gazakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan. We call on Azerbaijan to 

put an end to the occupation of vital territories of more than 30 

villages of the Republic of Armenia," the Armenian Foreign Ministry 

said.

Official Yerevan also noted that Azerbaijan's practice of predicting 

regional escalation at every opportunity makes one think and confirms 

the analysis of a number of centers that Azerbaijan will do 

everything to disrupt the process of concluding a peace agreement 

with Armenia in order to start a new aggression against Armenia after 

the COP29 summit in Baku in November 2024.

"We draw the attention of the international community to this, as 

well as to the fact that official Yerevan's proposal to conclude a 

peace agreement within 1 month remained unanswered by official Baku," 

the Armenian Foreign Ministry summed up.

On June 18, the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan made threats 

against Armenia against the backdrop of a message from the Minister 

of the French Armed Forces, Sebastien Lecornu, about the signing of a 

contract for the supply of French CAESAR self-propelled artillery 

systems to the RA.

"The fact that, despite the warning from the Azerbaijani side, France 

is supplying lethal and offensive artillery and other types of 

weapons to Armenia is further evidence of France's provocative 

activities in the South Caucasus region. The leadership of Armenia 

and the dictatorship of Macron will bear full responsibility for the 

creation of a new hotbed war in the South Caucasus," the Azerbaijani 

Ministry of Defense cynically stated.

And this is against the backdrop of the fact that this year 

Azerbaijan, despite assurances of commitment to peace, has increased 

its defense budget and is actively importing weapons from Israel, 

Turkey, Pakistan, Serbia and other European countries. Thus, 

Azerbaijan imagined that now they would actively arm themselves, but 

at the same time they would dictate to Armenia what is possible and 

what is not.