Luxembourg Palace in captivity of Armenian myth "Miatsum" is closed, patients to be treated or evacuated

The French Senate, known for its strong pro-Armenian orientation, has once again distinguished itself by its hostile stance against Azerbaijan. The day before, the head of the "Republicans" faction, Senator Bruno Retailleau, during a meeting with the Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II in Yerevan, announced the creation of a committee "on Nagorno-Karabakh issues" in the French Senate, which, they say, will "support the Armenians" of Karabakh.

Against the backdrop of general hysteria in Armenia due to the recent and legitimate installation by Azerbaijan of a checkpoint on the Lachin-Khankendi road, something similar in the French Senate was quite expected.

Suffice it to recall that it is within the walls of this legislative body of France to this day that calls are made to adopt a resolution “On the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh”.

And it is not surprising that the French senator, habitually bending the anti-Azerbaijani line, promised Garegin II that "every effort will be made in international instances to raise the issue of protecting the rights of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh to a free and independent life."

And just the day before, on the official website of the upper house of the French Parliament, at the initiative of the delegation in Armenia headed by Bruno Retailleau (from April 22 to 25 to participate in the ceremonies of “commemoration of the victims of the Armenian genocide”), an appeal was also published under the heading “Blockade of the Lachin corridor: Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh are on fire, and the eyes of the world community are directed in the other direction.”

However, for pushing Armenian interests by propagandists in the French Senate, appeals of such content are a common practice, though not at all unselfish. Therefore, it is quite reasonable that false rhetoric is launched about a fictitious blockade of Karabakh, as well as about an alleged humanitarian crisis in which the non-existent “120,000 Armenians of Karabakh” find themselves.

By the way, Armenian mass media report that the same false thesis was used by Bruno Retailleau the day before during his joint press-conference with the head of Tegh community (Dygh - Ed.) and the governor of Syunik region (Zangezur - Ed.) trying to draw international attention to the trite myth about "120,000".

Moreover, Retailleau demanded the “liberation of 120,000 Armenians” who, in his words, found themselves in “terrible conditions”, and even voiced concerns that, supposedly, “the establishment of a checkpoint by Azerbaijani troops at the entrance to a new road leading to Nagorno-Karabakh, on the Hakari bridge, could be a prelude to some kind of large-scale action that will lead to the irreversible closure of the Lachin corridor.”

It is clear that Retailleau just voiced the position of his Armenian sponsors and, roughly speaking, earned his money. But in any case, the fears of the destructive elements who do not want peace in the region - the Armenian side and its lobbyists - are not so groundless.

After all, the installation of the checkpoint finally closes the “miatsum” (unification) project, tying the hands of the remnants of the Armenian gangs in Karabakh, and in fact now they have only three options - to surrender to the Azerbaijani authorities, leave the territory of Azerbaijan or be destroyed. That is, either treatment or evacuation.

On the other hand, Armenia's "big sister" is trying to assert itself in the region in some way. That is why Paris is literally bending over backwards, creating incomprehensible committees in the Senate and demanding the EU to apply tough sanctions against Azerbaijan. And this is all while the position of the EU on Karabakh is well known. The EU supports the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and even has a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with Azerbaijan. This, first of all.

Secondly, the EU is a major foreign investor in Azerbaijan, and our country, in turn, acts to a certain extent as a guarantor of European energy security. And these are already strong enough arguments in themselves, indicating that the vested interests of pro-Armenian propagandists like Retailleau and others like him, which go beyond the French Senate or the European Parliament, are doomed to a crushing failure.

Of course, all kinds of anti-Azerbaijani resolutions will continue to be passed in both the Senate and the European Parliament at the instigation of the influential Armenian lobby. But all these efforts (and considerable financial resources) cannot change the foreign policy course of the EU as a whole, as well as of individual countries of the Old World.

And finally, returning to the hysteria of Armenians over the installation of the checkpoint on the Lachin-Khankendi road, it is appropriate to remind Yerevan that Baku is fully entitled to act at its own discretion on its territory, it will continue to adhere to this position, clearly setting its state priorities in the region and in the system of international relations, despite the exertions of Armenian propagandists anywhere in the world.