(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 9. France has lost
its role as a mediator between Azerbaijan and Armenia for years to
come, Parvin Mirzazade, Ambassador-at-Large of the Azerbaijani
Foreign Ministry, said in his article about a one-sided, biased
anti-Azerbaijani resolution recently adopted by The National
Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament, trend reports.
Taking a closer look at this piece of paper, one can say that
French parliamentarians have no understanding of international
relations or international law because, having succumbed to
collective psychosis and bought into the generous donations of the
Armenian diaspora, they had adopted an illiterate document that is
contrary to the French Constitution, he noted.
“The resolutions state that both houses of parliament demand
that the French government immediately recognize the independence
of a geographically unknown 'Artsakh', condemn the Azerbaijani
'invasion' of Armenia (whose borders are uncertain), demand respect
for the ceasefire under the Trilateral Statement of 10 November
2020, propose sanctions against Azerbaijan and provide military
assistance to the new ally,” he explained.
As Mirzazade rightly pointed out, the resolutions themselves are
the epitome of self-governance and double standards, for which the
French parliamentarians advocate, sticking their noses into other
people's business and going to extremes for the sake of their
donations from the Armenian diaspora.
“Of course, Azerbaijan does not care about resolutions of French
MPs, who for nothing are just content to compete in Turkophobia and
Islamophobia. However, with this the French parliament has finally
put an end to any possible mediation by France in a peace
settlement, as under international law a mediator must be neutral
and impartial,” Mirzazade noted.
For nearly 24 years France pretended to be an impartial
mediator, although secretly the French co-chairs always supported
Armenia and in fact acted as pro bono lawyers for the Armenian
side. The outbreak of the Second Karabakh War finally unmasked
France, which stopped creating the appearance of neutrality and
openly sided with Armenia.
According to the ambassador, despite the fact that the
Azerbaijani leadership did not complicate relations with France and
tried to resolve the problems through diplomatic channels,
suggesting a fresh start, the French government did not accept this
sign of goodwill from the Azerbaijani side and continued to
escalate tensions in bilateral relations.
In his article Mirzazade reminded that, back in 2020,
immediately after the end of the Second Karabakh War and the
capitulation of Armenia, in violation of all international
obligations and international law, both chambers of the French
Parliament adopted a resolution demanding the recognition of the
'Artsakh' separatists, which is an open encroachment on the
territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan. Now the
Parliament of France, again ignoring international law and all
earlier documents voted by the French Republic (which is impossible
in principle because the law is not retroactive), openly takes the
side of Armenia and adopts an illiterate document that has no legal
right.
“Without going into the details of the nonsense written there,
we can say that the French parliamentarians simply did not
understand that by making unfounded accusations against Azerbaijan
and demanding recognition of the non-existent 'Nagorno Karabakh'
independence, they themselves drove the last nail into the coffin
of the Minsk Group. After this decision, any peace initiatives by
France are no longer relevant for Azerbaijan, as such documents
leave no chance for such an engaged Armenian mediator to be
acceptable. French politicians made their choice by choosing the
false path of support for separatism and neocolonialism, which
sooner or later will hit France so hard that it will not be enough.
With its decisions and actions, the French side caused irreparable
damage to bilateral relations with Azerbaijan, as well as to the
image of France in the eyes of the Azerbaijani people, which will
take a long time for the next generation of French leaders to
restore,” Mirzazade concluded.