author | Insight Turkey https://www.insightturkey.com/ author EN authorThe commentary looks at the stance of France on the Second Karabakh war between Armenia and Azerbaijan and subsequently the Russian-brokered trilateral truce deal, from the angle of the norms and values of the EU. To that end, the article studies the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict from the context of international law, the post-ceasefire period 1994-2020, and looks into the position of the EU on the issue of territorial integrity and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. By analyzing them, it argues that the standpoint of France is not in line with the norms and values of the EU, and also contradicts the position of a mediator state.https://www.insightturkey.com/author/elmar-mustafayev/editors-note-winter-2021-1https://www.insightturkey.com/author/elmar-mustafayev/editors-note-winter-2021-1Fri, 18 Jun 2021 16:08:00 GMT