On January 31, Assoc. Prof. Orkhan Valiyev, Head of the Department of Political Science and Philosophy, attended to the International Conference organized by the Center of Analysis of International Relations (AIR Center), titled “France and the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict.”
In his introductory remarks, Chairman of the Board of the AIR Center, Farid Shafiyev, stressed that the cool down in the bilateral relations is solely the responsibility of France. Farid Shafiyev also emphasized the importance of developing contacts in the academic sphere, continuing research about France, and learning the French language, notwithstanding the crisis in bilateral relations.
Moderated by AIR Center’s Board Member Gulshan Pashayeva, the first panel on “France’s role in the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict” saw speeches by Cote D’Azur University’s public law professor Christian Vallar, Member of Azerbaijani Parliament Tural Ganjaliyev, “Conflicts” journal director Gil Mihaely, and Baku State University’s professor Mammadaga Bahishov. After a brief overview, Gulshan Pashayeva drew attention to France’s unsuccessful and fruitless OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing.
AIR Center’s Head of Department and Lecturer of the Department of Political Science and Philosophy at Khazar University, Vasif Huseynov moderated the second panel, during which Member of Azerbaijani Parliament Asim Mollazade, independent researcher and founder of the “EurasiaPeace” think tank Morgan Caillet, senior research fellow at the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa (Canada), Robert Cutler, and lawyer from the Strasbourg Bar and co-founder of the French Institute for Culture Jean-Emmanuel Medina shared their thoughts.
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