In her article, Rachel Avraham, famous Israeli political analyst and journalist, founder and CEO of the Dona Gracia Center for Diplomacy, says it is unthinkable and unacceptable that the French Senate passed a resolution demanding sanctions against Azerbaijan and recognition by France of the Armenian separatist entity “Nagorno-Karabakh Republic” in the territory of Azerbaijan, which violates four UN Security Council resolutions and has as much international legitimacy as the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip.
The author emphasizes that the French Senate added fuel to the fire by calling upon Azerbaijan to withdraw from “Armenian territory” during the escalation of the conflict last September, even though there has been no delineation of borders between the two post-Soviet republics. She also points out that despite the fact the border confrontation was initiated by Armenian saboteurs, France took a one-sided approach to the issue, ignoring the Azerbaijani deaths.
Although the French Senate resolution is non-binding and has no legal force, writes Rachel Avraham, this resolution still severely hinders the peace process between the two countries. Referring in her reasoning to the biased pro-Armenian statements of French President Emmanuel Macron, the Israeli political analyst says that even though Macron never called for the recognition of the “Nagorno-Karabakh Republic”, he insisted that Karabakh, recognized as part of Azerbaijan under four UN Security Council resolutions, was “disputed territory”.
It is pointed out in the article that President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev canceled the meeting scheduled for December 7 that was to include the head of the EU and Macron, stressing Macron had adopted an “anti-Azerbaijan position” and was “insulting Baku,” and thus should play no role in the peace talks: “Macron … attacked Azerbaijan and accused us of what we haven’t done. It is clear that under these circumstances, with this attitude, France cannot be part of the peace process between Azerbaijan and Armenia.”
The full text of the article is available at: https://www.thej.ca/2022/12/01/france-hinders-azerbaijan-armenia-peace-process/
