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French President Emmanuel Macron, today expressed support for the Armenian community to the address a “telephone marathon” to raise funds for the people of Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh, the breakaway region of Azerbaijan devastated by war. they are Armenians.
“This humanitarian commitment is obviously what we owe to the 120,000 displaced from Nagorno Karabakh and the seven provinces (now controlled by Azerbaijan), but also to the least one million Armenians living in intolerable conditions today.” and in “very great poverty”, explained the French president.
It is expected that a first exit plane from France “Sunday” with the help of the government and the Armenian Fund French (medicines, toiletries, clothes, toys …), which will be addressed by former ace of football international Yuri Jorkaev, a Frenchman of Armenian descent, Macron said.
“Today there is a truce” between Azerbaijan and Armenia, “but there is a humanitarian situation that is dramatic,” said the former 1998 world champion, who was also present at the fundraiser.
The internally displaced “had to leave, often taking their few things,” explains Christophe Dossikian, vice president of the French Armenian Fund.
The phone marathon started on Thursday. It has raised 1.7 million euros and is expected to reach 2 million. But “the needs are much greater,” Dosikian said.
About twenty people work in this room, in a building set up for this purpose by a telecommunications group.
The main target is the Armenian diaspora in France, which, with 600,000 members, is the largest in Europe.
“We welcome the participation of President Macron, who was the only Western leader to denounce the Azeri aggression,” Doschian said.
In addition to humanitarian aid, Emanuel Macron explained that France was calling for “a cultural truce” to prevent the “destruction of Armenian cultural and religious heritage” in the region.
The French head of state also reiterated his desire to “international supervision” of the agreement signed last week between Azerbaijan and Armenia, backed by Russia, which ended weeks of bloody clashes in Nagorno Karabakh.
There are still problems that “cannot be solved only in a Turkish-Russian debate,” said Emanuel Macron, who spoke on the issue on Thursday with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pasinan.
Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
