France continues to control over 13 territories as its colonies and interferes with their domestic affairs, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said in a message to the participants of the event on "Decolonization: Empowerment and Development of Women" held in Baku.
"Most of the bloody crimes in the colonial history of humanity have been committed by France. France, which occupied dozens of countries in Africa, South-East Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, and Latin America, plundered their wealth and enslaved their people for many years, committing numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity," the message notes.