“France, as one of the three States which chair together the OSCE Minsk Group, remain faithful to the principles which where defined by the 15th Ministerial Council of the OSCE which took place in Madrid on 29th and 30th November, 2007,” Roland Blum, member of the Assemblée Nationale, First Deputy Mayor of Marseilles told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“Nevertheless, the difficulties met by the implementation of those principles find their roots in the disagreement between the parties about the status of the Nagorno-Karabakh and in the current impossibility to reach an agreement between territorial integrity and self-determination. Yet, only self-determination, expressed through the vote of the Karabakhtsi people, will definitely allow to settle this problem, since I regard as unbelievable that a people may be forced to live under the domination of another one against its will,” he stressed.

“Since France has acknowledged this principle for Kosovo, the same right could be granted to Nagorno-Karabakh,” he noted.