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Under the above title, Gennady Petrov wrote, in “Nezavisimaya Gazeta,” about pressuring Macron to take more aggressive action against Turkey, which is increasing resentment in French society with the policies of its president Erdogan.
The article says: The French Senate made a decision to recognize the independence of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic. However, this decision does not mean that France will officially recognize the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh. It is a recommendation that the president takes into account in foreign policy.
The Senate Resolution is an example of a contradiction. France precedes even the country with the greatest interest in recognizing Karabakh. It should be noted here that Armenian Prime Minister Nicole Pashinyan announced again, on the eve of the French Senate vote, her country’s position on the Republic of Artsakh. He stressed that in Yerevan they still do not recognize the independence of Nagorno Karabakh. According to Pashinyan, this problem must be resolved through negotiations within the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, co-chaired by the United States of America, Russia and France.
The French view the Karabakh conflict, largely, in terms of relations with Turkey, which have recently worsened dramatically. In Libya and the Eastern Mediterranean, the interests of the two countries collide. The French community deplores the position of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in support of terrorist actions, as they see in France. Ankara’s official attempts to increase its influence among French Muslims also provoked negative reactions.
In this regard, the director of the Center for French Studies of the European Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yuri Rubinsky, said: “The case of Karabakh is organically linked to the conflict with Turkey. This leads France to seek active participation, by less symbolic, in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, in the interests of Armenia – The fact that the Minsk group has found itself in a secondary role in the peace negotiations is a negative matter for France. It is trying to strengthen this role before the clear coordination of positions between Russia, the parties to the conflict and Turkey The decision of the French Senate serves to achieve this objective.
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