{"id":358681,"date":"2025-08-20T05:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358681\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T05:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:50:12","slug":"france-names-new-ambassador-to-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358681\/","title":{"rendered":"France names new ambassador to Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"France names new ambassador to Azerbaijan\" title=\"France names new ambassador to Azerbaijan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2-1755667951.jpg\" data-rjs=\"2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s new ambassador to Azerbaijan Sophie Lagoutte<\/p>\n<p><strong> France has appointed Sophie Lagoutte as its new ambassador to Azerbaijan.  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FranceBakou\/status\/1957880277747003586\" rel=\"nofollow\">announcement<\/a> was made by France&#8217;s Embassy in Azerbaijan, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a> reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Lagoutte also shared a post on X about her appointment as France&#8217;s envoy to Azerbaijan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a great honour to serve France, our interests, and our compatriots as ambassador to Azerbaijan,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will continue the work of my predecessor, Anne Bouillon, and, together with the embassy team, aim to further strengthen <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/-experts-explain-how-france-uses-double-standards-regarding-azerbaijan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France-Azerbaijan relations<\/a> in this strategically important region for both our country and the European Union.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Honneur de servir prochainement la France, nos int\u00e9r\u00eats et nos compatriotes en tant qu&#8217;ambassadrice en Azerba\u00efdjan, dans la lign\u00e9e de <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Niece_de_Rameau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Niece_de_Rameau<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>H\u00e2te de faire vivre avec l&#8217;\u00e9quipe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FranceBakou?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FranceBakou<\/a> les liens dans une r\u00e9gion strat\u00e9gique pour notre pays et l&#8217;. A bient\u00f4t <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l01s4N7xKy\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/l01s4N7xKy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Sophie Lagoutte (@Sophie_Lagoutte) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sophie_Lagoutte\/status\/1957861094275297674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s new ambassador to Azerbaijan Sophie Lagoutte France has appointed Sophie Lagoutte as its new ambassador to Azerbaijan.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[7503,2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-358681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-azerbaijan","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115059531685286978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}