(MENAFN- AzerNews) By trend
Jean-Michel Brun, Executive Director of Trend News
Agency's lagazetteaz.fr newspaper, has published an
article dedicated to the fact that France supports Armenian
separatism in Karabakh while arresting Corsicans with similar
demands, trend reports.
According to the journalist, France has found a new
reason to criticize Azerbaijan – the latest events on the Lachin
corridor.
'This corridor that connects Armenia with Karabakh is
located on the territory of the sovereign Azerbaijani state.
Russian peacekeepers have been taking the positions in the region
since the end of the 44-day war in November 2020,' said the
journalist.
'There is information that along this corridor, in
addition to products intended for the Armenian population remaining
in Karabakh, weapons and equipment are transported for the illegal
exploitation of minerals by Armenia. These include a gold mine and
a copper-molybdenum deposit. At the moment, Azerbaijani
environmentalists are holding peaceful protests on the Lachin
road,' added the journalist.
Brun noted that these activities are met with biased
criticism from France, which accuses Azerbaijan of depriving
Khankendi of the main supply route.
'It is quite ridiculous that these French critics are
heard during the arrests of Corsican independence activists in
Paris on charges of terrorism, while Armenian paramilitary groups
are seen as freedom fighters,' he noted.
The author asks that if about 20,000 Karabakh
Armenians become the object of universal attention, how can 400,000
Corsicans be denied the demand for independence from Paris?
'In fact, as Araik Harutyunyan said, the number of
Armenians remaining in Karabakh is no more than the number of
Corsicans. In order to exaggerate the issue, the French side speaks
of 100,000 Armenians in Karabakh, which is most likely an outdated
figure referring to the last Soviet census of 1989, which at that
time corresponded to the total population of Karabakh, including
Armenians and Azerbaijanis,' noted the French journalist.
'However, many events have taken place since then,
including the forcible expulsion of Karabakh Azerbaijanis from the
region, whose number at that time was about 40,000 people. In
addition, there was a mass emigration of Karabakh Armenians in
search of better lives in Russia or elsewhere,' he added.
'It turns out that there are good and bad activists
and separatists fighting for independence. Corsicans are clearly
'bad.' So who will come to the aid of Corsicans who demand
independence, to take on the role that France offers to play in
Karabakh?' the article says.
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