This will make it possible to demarcate the borders between the two countries and allow the “people of Nagorno-Karabakh” to live there with respect for their rights, culture and history. And then she added firmly: “The strategy of suffocation aimed at provoking a mass exodus of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh is illegal, as the International Court of Justice has established; it is also amoral.”
First of all, Madame Colonna should be reminded that there is no “people of Nagorno-Karabakh”. There is the Karabakh economic region of Azerbaijan, and there are the Azerbaijani and Armenian communities of this region. And if the minister is so concerned about the rights, culture and history of Karabakh, it would be much more honest and logical of her to speak out on the urbicide, ethnic cleansing and destruction of Azerbaijani cultural heritage committed by the occupying Armenians. But official Paris does not have the guts to do this.
If Paris really wants to “mobilize to help bring about a just and lasting peace”, the best way to do this is to use its influence to make its Armenian friends aware that neither recognized borders nor international law have been abolished. As for the “strategy of suffocation”… We will refrain from advising to read the ICJ ruling more carefully. We will not even ask whether Madame Minister knows about the agreements on the Zangezur corridor and when the French authorities last reminded Armenia of its commitments in this regard. We have only one question: is Madame Colonna sure that France, with its Islamophobia, with the suppression of the national movement in Corsica, with blatant manifestations of neo-colonialism, has the moral right to lecture anyone, let alone Azerbaijan? Maybe it should first look in the mirror and study its own history?
