(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 16 .
Jean-Michel Brun, Executive Director of Trend News Agency's
lagazetteaz.fr newspaper, called
the French Senate resolution initiated by Armenian extremists
against Azerbaijan 'shameful' in his article .
In the article, it said that on October 3, a group of
senators presented to the Senate of France a draft resolution
against Azerbaijan. The resolution was passed on November 15 with
an overwhelming majority of votes.
He said that the decision of the Senate does not
affect the external Politics of France and that the resolution
within this context does not have any value.
The journalist noted that before the Senate session,
Azerbaijanis residing in France held a peaceful protest in front of
the Luxembourg Palace. Referring to this, he said that the
Azerbaijani community in France, with its several thousand
representatives, has less value than the Armenian lobby represented
in the country.
Brun also noted that the main representative of the
Armenian lobby is Jean-Marc Ara Toranian, who is also the
representative of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of
Armenia (ASALA), which is responsible for a number of provocations
in the 1980's, including the infamous 1983 bomb attack at the Orly
Airport.
'This fact does not prevent him from being a friend in
the Élysée Palace, National Assembly, and Senate of France,' said
Brun.
It is also noted in the article that the text of the
resolution has, in particular, a demand for French and European
powers to impose an embargo on the imported gas from Azerbaijan and
'to immediately withdraw Azerbaijan from the Armenian
territory'.
'However, despite all international laws and four UN
resolutions, as well as the requirement to fully withdraw Armenian
forces from Karabakh according to recent trilateral statements, the
Armenian occupation of 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territories for
30 years is somehow not mentioned,' the article states.
Jean-Michel Brun noted that after the past election,
the most conservative part of the French political class, that has
increased its influence and is following other European countries
facing difficult economic situation like Italy, chose as an
argument the hypothesis of 'European identity' that is based on the
Christian roots of the West. However, it is impossible to determine
the 'national identity' considering the fact that Europe and France
in particular have numerous and various roots.
Brun mentioned that within this context, the main
reason why Turkiye is not accepted into the EU is that it is a
Muslim country.
'This means that the French culture, the most of which
undoubtedly comes from Avicenna, Ibn Khaldun, Nizami, Saint
Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas, completely forgot its Muslim roots.
The 'father' of secular schools, Jules Ferry, who decided to remove
all references to Arab roots from European textbooks, is primarily
responsible for this ignorance or blindness. It is related to the
ignorance of our compatriots in this matter,' he said in the
article.
According to the article, it manifests itself today in
the cruel Islamophobic campaigns that French Muslims face on a
daily basis.
'Why do you attack Azerbaijan, a fully secular country
where all religions can coexist peacefully and where the majority
of the population is Muslim, but where the region's largest
European community resides? Just because French identitarians who
claim to defend Armenians as 'east Christians,' allegedly
'threatened by Muslims', believe they have begun a new crusade to
save the Christian faith and, as a result, 'European civilization',
said in the article.
The French reporter also mentioned that the suffering
of the Azerbaijani people for about thirty years was neglected in
the resolution. Also neglected was the fact that part of the
country's territory was occupied, destroyed, and mined, and that
the population of the occupied territories was subjected to ethnic
cleansing.
'This resolution purposefully distorts reality and
puts the responsibility on others. It demands from Azerbaijan to
'leave Armenian territory', 'return captured Armenians to their
homeland', while neglecting the permanent attacks on Azerbaijani
territory committed by Armenian saboteurs, the refusal of Armenia
to present minefield maps, as well as the fate of 4000 Azerbaijanis
who went missing during the Karabakh conflict. France is not
perplexed by the paradox of supporting Ukraine as well as Armenia,
whose soldiers fight alongside Russian forces, despite the fact
that Azerbaijan has been providing Kyiv with assistance since the
beginning,' Brun said.
He noted that this recent event with the Senate is no
more than an ironic advertisement for Armenian extremists that
managed to involve French parliamentarians in this pathetic
masquerade. It is one of the fundamental examples of the
Islamophobic domestic policy of France, which also conducts an
inappropriate external policy in relation to the countries of
Caucasus and Central Asia. As a result, France loses its political,
cultural, and even linguistic authority among the people. Moreover,
it is a demonstration of France's refusal to adhere to its own
fundamental principles. Alas!', he concluded.