09 April 2026 16:00<\/p>\n
France’s Armed Forces Minister Catherine Vautrin has announced that Paris has no immediate plans to deploy its frigates to the Strait of Hormuz to ensure maritime security.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the issue, Vautrin said France is working with 17 other countries to develop a \u201ctransit plan\u201d for the strait, Caliber.Az<\/a> reports, citing French media<\/a>.<\/p>\n She made it clear that the plan was aimed at guaranteeing the safe passage of vessels once the ceasefire stabilises, negotiations conclude, and mine-clearing operations are completed.<\/p>\n Vautrin added that escorting ships could be possible in the future.<\/p>\n The minister emphasised that the current situation remains highly unstable, making any deployment of French frigates premature<\/p>\n At the same time, she noted that France\u2019s involvement in clearing mines from the strait cannot be completely ruled out.<\/p>\n By Bakhtiyar Abbasov<\/p>\n Caliber.Az<\/p>\n Read more about the key topics in this news story.<\/p>\n Views: 39<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"09 April 2026 16:00 France’s Armed Forces Minister Catherine Vautrin has announced that Paris has no immediate plans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3975,3657,3656,5,3976,3979,1277,3978,3977,3974],"class_list":{"0":"post-4220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-analysis-of-azerbaijan","9":"tag-azerbaijan","10":"tag-baku","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-important-news-of-azerbaijan","13":"tag-international-experts","14":"tag-interviews","15":"tag-interviews-with-azerbaijani-analysts","16":"tag-news-from-baku","17":"tag-news-of-azerbaijan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}