The ex-colonial power is up to no good in the South Caucasus, President Ilham Aliyev has claimed France is stuck in its colonial ways and is intent on causing instability in regions that it never previously ruled, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev claimed on Tuesday.

France considers “excessive” the organization’s claims of “racial profiling,” its foreign ministry has said The French foreign ministry has criticized a UN assessment of the most recent violent protests in the country. In a statement released on Saturday, Paris said that it believes the organization’s conclusions about racism in policing went too far.

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