BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 6. The declaration was adopted, following the results of the round table, convened on the initiative of the Center for the Analysis of International Relations (AIR Centre) on the sidelines of the Ministerial Meeting of the Coordination Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement of which Azerbaijan holds the presidency, TurkicWorld reports.

Following the meeting, the participants agreed to create Baku Initiative Group against French colonialism.

"Since the Non-Aligned Movement is a global platform for the fight against colonialism, it has become necessary to be able to engage new perspectives of work in order to support the peoples in struggle under French colonial domination, in particular on the basis of the fundamental principles of NAM.

The independentists and nationalists of Martinique, Guyana, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna, Solomon Islands, as well as the representatives from the Republic of Azerbaijan and the French Republic reaffirmed and stressed the validity and relevance of the Movement's principled positions concerning the fight against colonial and neo-colonial practices," the declaration says.

The participants were also able to present an overview of the colonial situations in the overseas territories of France, and agreed to structure their solidarity network in their fights for justice and freedom.