The September 30 statement by Macron regarding the military clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan casts doubt on France’s mediatory activities as a co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group.

The position that the French president has been sticking to since the beginning of hostilities, as well as his anti-Azerbaijani statements, run contrary the international mandate entrusted to this country in resolving the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and undermine its mission of a neutral mediator.

A country that is a mediator in accordance with the OSCE mandate does not have the right to provide open and unequivocal support to one of the parties to the conflict, demonstratively upsetting the balance in relation to the parties.

Macron's anti-Azerbaijani position, which does not meet the requirements of the diplomatic and mediation mission, is also associated with the upcoming elections in France and aimed at obtaining votes from the representatives of the Armenian diaspora in this country. Today Macron is not engaged in fulfilling his mediating mission towards the conflict resolution, but is busy with his election campaign. Macron is not striving to ensure peace and stability in the Caucasus, but is concerned about getting as many votes of Armenians as possible in the upcoming presidential elections in France.

Moreover, France's negative, biased, and sometimes deliberately hostile attitude towards Muslim countries is associated with a historical aspect (Algeria in the last century, Libya in this century).

Macron's behavior and statements show that he does not have the qualities that must be inherent in any person in order to lead one of the leading European countries. It is regrettable that a country once ruled by a person like Charles de Gaulle is now led by tabloid fake news propagandist Macron.

Friendly relations between Azerbaijan and France have always been at a high level. The French language is taught in a number of secondary schools and universities in Azerbaijan. French firms took part in the conclusion of oil agreements with Azerbaijan, and the then President Heydar Aliyev made his first foreign visit as President of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 1993 to France. In 2003, President Ilham Aliyev paid an official visit to France. Today Azerbaijan is actively involved in the reconstruction and restoration of historical monuments in France. The position of the Macron government against the background of all that has been said is regrettable and contradicts, first of all, the interests of France itself.

AzVision.az

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