Not a trace of the lauded motto “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” remains. The priority in the current policy of official Paris is a simple, but Armenian-funded thesis: Armenians are always right, even when they are wrong.
This is the motto that guides Paris in building foreign policy relations with other countries. The French fell out with Azerbaijan because of their pro-Armenian alignment. After the 44-day war, when Azerbaijani warriors showed who was the boss in the region, France came to outright hate our country. Understandably so: the French pimp’s promiscuous little sister was kicked out of Azerbaijan. And Armenia’s older sibling, France, sadly ended its mission as part of the OSCE Minsk Group, an ostensible advocate for world peace.
It took Baku 44 days to resolve the problem that had remained “unsolvable” for the OSCE Minsk Group, including France, for almost 30 years. Paris could not swallow this insult (no one had stepped in to protect its “little sister”). No wonder that France took its “little sister’s” side over the Armenian provocation that took place the day before yesterday on the conditional Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
French Foreign Ministry issued a statement regarding the confrontation, quoted by Armenian media: “French Foreign Ministry released a statement concerning Azerbaijan’s attack on Armenian soldiers in the vicinity of the village of Tegh in the territory of Armenia. Armenpress reports that France expresses its deep concern over the violence that took place around the village of Tegh on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan on April 11, resulting in 7 dead and wounded from both sides. “France reiterates that the demarcation should be carried out solely through negotiations, and calls on the parties to continue their efforts in this direction.”
First of all, it remains to be seen who attacked whom, although we have no doubt that the provocation was committed by Armenia. However, Paris, playing the mentor, is blaming Azerbaijan without giving it a second thought. And it does not occur to the French “geniuses” that Azerbaijan is the one interested in stability in the region. Our country’s interests include numerous transport and logistics routes, where Azerbaijan acts as a major hub.
Judging by this statement of the French Foreign Ministry, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev did the right thing when he showed the OSCE MG the door and told them where it can go. France was told the same. But here is the astonishing and illogical part. France is in a serious turmoil today because of the pension reform. Yet this “insignificant detail” does not bother the “guardians of democracy”. They are more concerned about the Armenian provocateurs who caused another border incident.
By the way, France has been losing across the board recently. One day Algeria says something unpleasant, then New Caledonia contemplates independence. That is, in the words of Shakespeare, “something is rotten in the state of France.” Meanwhile France is screaming at the top of its voice about “self-determination of artsakh”, about human rights and so on. Life is just a bowl of cherries, isn’t it? But only at first glance. Advocating for the “self-determination of artsakh,” Paris fails to see what is going on under its nose.
And what is going on under its nose is quite amusing events, which are hardly to the liking of the “freedom-loving” French. Just recently, French President Emmanuel Macron declared that “the use of the Corsican language is forbidden on the French island of Corsica.” What an amazing democracy with a selective ethnical bias. Should Azerbaijan perhaps establish diplomatic relations with the government of Corsica? Quite a reasonable suggestion, given the “artsakh disease” of the French. It would seem that with all the troubles that plague Paris, it should attend to its own problems and get rid of the real log in its own eye before looking for a non-existent speck in someone else’s.
Farid Teymurkhanli
Translated from Minval.az
