The French National Assembly has unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the release of Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan, announced Murad Papazian, member of the ARF Bureau and co-chair of the Coordinating Council of Armenian Organizations of France.
The resolution was introduced during a plenary session by MP Laurent Wauquiez, and, according to Sputnik Armenia, received the support of all 183 attending members of the Senate.
The motion was authored by Wauquiez on behalf of the France-Armenia Friendship Group.
“We have reduced Azerbaijan’s influence in France to zero,” Papazian wrote.
Key points of the resolution include:
- Support for forcibly displaced Armenians from Artsakh, who have been denied the right to live on ancestral lands.
- Emphasis on the right to self-determination for all peoples, including the Armenians of Artsakh.
- A call for the international community to demand that Azerbaijan guarantee safe return and security for displaced populations.
- Condemnation of the trials and arbitrary detention of former Artsakh political leaders, with a demand for their immediate and unconditional release.
- An appeal to the French government to formally demand the release of all Armenian prisoners held by Azerbaijan.
The resolution also warns that ignoring the POW issue could undermine the implementation of the joint declaration signed in Washington on August 8, 2025.
The text states that Azerbaijan’s current treatment of Armenian prisoners is part of a systematic policy to deny Armenia’s existence, and reflects the continuation of efforts to erase the Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh and other Azerbaijani-controlled areas, including the destruction of historical, cultural, and religious heritage.
