Macron plotting to push another anti-Azerbaijani resolution in UN
Baku has its friends' back

ANALYTICS  02 November 2023 - 20:18

Macron's France with persistence worthy of better cause continues to plot various initiatives aimed at putting pressure on Azerbaijan and discrediting it in the international arena. Thus, Caliber.Az has learnt from diplomatic sources that Paris intends to take another hostile step against our country. It became known that France is preparing to push an anti-Azerbaijani resolution in the UN Security Council. According to our information, the draft of this resolution is ready.

Even though Azerbaijan completed local anti-terrorist measures and restored full sovereignty over Karabakh a month and a half ago, France has not come to terms with this fact and refuses to accept the obvious realities. This attitude of France towards Azerbaijan is not a surprise to us, on the contrary, we have long been accustomed to the fact that Paris has long been openly siding with Armenia, which for decades occupied the territory of our country and carried out ethnic cleansing not only at home but also on our soil. Suffice it to recall the fact that during the Second Karabakh War France was one of the authors of the anti-Azerbaijani resolution of the UN Security Council, which was never adopted.

Paris did not abandon its attempts to lean on Baku even after Azerbaijan's victory. In September 2022, after the escalation on the conditional Armenian-Azerbaijani border, an item entitled "Letter from the Permanent Representative of Armenia to the UN" was included in the agenda of the UN Security Council meeting based on Yerevan's appeal. It is clear to any sensible person that the inclusion of an item on the agenda of the UN Security Council meeting based on this appeal could not have happened without the support of France. At that time, the "sisters" wanted to adopt a document in the UN Security Council regarding the events that took place. But this attempt also failed.

When Azerbaijani eco-activists, angered by the illegal exploitation of deposits in the territories that were then in the zone of temporary responsibility of Russian peacekeepers in the Karabakh economic region, launched their protest action in December last year, France and Armenia convened a UN Security Council meeting on the situation on the Lachin road. Immediately after the discussions, France, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council and chairing the body at the time, prepared a hypocritical and completely pro-Armenian text that presented the situation on the Lachin-Khankendi road as a "humanitarian catastrophe".

At that time France utilised all its resources, but this pro-Armenian text was never adopted. The reason for Paris' failure was both the successful work of Azerbaijani diplomats and the fact that members of the UN Security Council and the international community saw France's bias, hypocrisy and outright hostility.

But even this was not a lesson for the disgraced French diplomacy. On August 11 this year, Armenia, with the active support of France, requested the UN to hold an emergency meeting of the Security Council in connection with the alleged "deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Karabakh as a result of the forced blockade". On August 16, the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, despite all the efforts of Paris and Yerevan, ended miserably for them. Not a single document was adopted following the discussions. Then Azerbaijan's permanent representative to the UN Yashar Aliyev, telling about Armenia's disinformation campaign aimed at manipulating and misleading the international community, blew all the arguments of Yerevan and Paris, which supported him, to smithereens.

After Azerbaijan restored full sovereignty over Karabakh as a result of anti-terrorist measures on September 21, Armenia and France convened a regular meeting of the UN Security Council. Let us emphasise the fact that the initiative of Yerevan and Paris to convene this meeting on the anti-terrorist measures of Azerbaijan, which it carried out on its territory, contradicted the norms and principles of international law and, first of all, the principles of territorial integrity, sovereignty and non-interference in the internal affairs of states. Despite the stance taken at the meeting by France and the EU, their attempts to discriminate against Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis on the grounds of religious and ethnic hatred, with the efforts of Baku and the friendly states that supported it, this meeting ended without result for Yerevan and Paris.

And now Macron, who fancies himself a modern crusader, is making another attempt to put pressure on Azerbaijan. I dare to assume that it will also end in a fiasco for France. The countries with which Azerbaijan has won friendship as a result of the far-sighted and resolute policy of Azerbaijani diplomacy are also in the UN Security Council: UAE, China, Russia, Brazil, Albania, active member of the Non-Aligned Movement Ghana and Gabon, which decided to get out from under the longstanding influence of France by force. These countries oppose the biased French draft resolution, which completely omits to mention more than a million Azerbaijani refugees and IDPs. This one-sided pro-Armenian approach of Paris has irritated these members of the Security Council.

Who will be against Azerbaijan in the UN Security Council? It can be assumed that the United States is behind this French game, whose ambassador has not yet visited liberated Shusha. Malta, which has repeatedly made blatantly false attacks against our country, acts as France's stooge in the UN Security Council. Allegedly neutral Switzerland is also involved in this anti-Azerbaijani process.

However, the events in Gaza have shown that the US-led Western bloc has lost its former influence in the UN Security Council. The world is tired of the double standards and biased approaches of the collective West. And this gives confidence that the next dirty games against Azerbaijan will fail.

It should also be noted that one of the reasons why France is trying to achieve the adoption of an anti-Azerbaijani resolution is its concern over Baku's uncompromising position in the fight against neo-colonialism. It should be recalled that last month Baku hosted a conference "Neocolonialism: violation of human rights and injustice", which was attended by officials, representatives of 14 countries, as well as overseas territories in colonial dependence on France, as well as Corsica.

Western countries once pursued a policy of colonialism, but unlike France, some of them, in particular Germany and the Netherlands, have found the courage to admit it and apologise to former colonies. For example, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier described his country's actions in Tanzania during colonial times as shameful. "I would like to apologise for what the Germans did to your ancestors here," he said in Tanzania. - What happened here is our common history, the history of your ancestors and the history of our ancestors in Germany."

Berlin also formally apologised through the Foreign Minister for the massacres of the Herero and Nama tribesmen committed in the early 20th century by the colonial troops of Kaiser Germany in present-day Namibia.

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands has formally apologised for his country's role in slavery. The monarch's apology was delivered at an official event marking the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the former colonies of the Netherlands.

"Today I stand here before you. As your king and member of the government, I apologise to you personally. I feel this deeply in my heart and soul," the king said.

Instead of sticking its nose into the South Caucasus region, France should have corrected a historical injustice and apologised for the crimes committed against the people of its former colonies.

And the Security Council? Well, what about the Security Council? They will meet, discuss and part ways. We are already used to it.

Caliber.Az