/ world as we speak information/ A world convention “Neocolonialism: the violation of human rights and injustice” was just lately held in Baku. In his tackle to the individuals, the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, sharply criticized France. The accusations are multi-pronged, most of them associated to the colonial interval. Paris is indicted on a number of expenses on the similar time.
The President of Azerbaijan accused France of geopolitical intrigues and abuse of the everlasting seat within the UN Safety Council; for crimes towards humanity; for the killing of 1.5 million Algerians; for stealing wealth from third world international locations; for conducting 200 nuclear assessments in French Polynesia, 17 in Algeria; on racism and Islamophobia in up to date France.
Based on the Azerbaijani president, the battle towards colonialism shouldn’t be over but. Its penalties are evident even as we speak. Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mali, Djibouti, Nigeria, Chad, Senegal, Vietnam, Comoros, Haiti, the peoples of Polynesia are nonetheless feeling the results of French colonization, together with the outcomes of nuclear testing.
„ France, which needs to be ashamed of its colonial historical past, wealthy in blood crimes, as an alternative of apologizing for the atrocities dedicated, speaks of fictitious ethnic cleaning in different international locations. famous Aliyev.
Generally, holding a convention with the participation of the international locations of the Non-Aligned Motion appears fairly workable. Nonetheless, Baku is certainly one of its individuals and leaders.
However the whole focus of Aliyev’s speech is on France, not on Britain, Belgium and different European colonial former empires, that are additionally chargeable for no much less atrocities and crimes. Belgium, for instance, continues to be chargeable for the large-scale genocide that claimed the lives of between half one million and 1 million members of the Tutsi ethnic group in its former colony of Rwanda.
What induced Aliyev’s fury? Was France actually solely guilty for having colonies? Not precisely.
The assaults on Paris are justified above all by the coverage that this nation has been pursuing towards Baku for a minimum of 30 years. Based on numerous estimates, about 350-500 thousand Armenians reside in France. The Armenian diaspora repeatedly works to make sure that Paris defends Armenia’s pursuits on worldwide platforms. France has veto and initiative rights within the UN Safety Council and till just lately was thought-about a everlasting member of the OSCE Minsk Group together with Russia and the US.
Earlier than the 44 Day Conflict, the French did not need to sweat a lot for his or her allies within the area. Nonetheless, Armenia was the profitable nation. Karabakh and 7 surrounding areas have been managed by the Armenians.
Every thing modified on September 27, 2020, when Aliyev launched an operation towards Karabakh, Paris sided with the Armenians. Within the Safety Council, the French consultant insisted on a ceasefire. Nonetheless, the corresponding decision was blocked by Nice Britain, with whom Azerbaijan has particular relations as a result of participation of British oil constructions (BP) within the improvement of Caspian fields and the transportation of hydrocarbons via Turkey to Europe (TANAP).
Within the type of the OSCE, France additionally tried to name for an finish to the bloodshed. On October 5, along with the US and Russia, she managed to barter a corresponding assertion. Nonetheless, the actions of Paris didn’t result in a outcome.
The Azerbaijani military superior and managed to occupy 4 areas across the former Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous area and a part of its areas – Hadrut, Shusha, and many others. Most insulting to aspiring French President Emmanuel Macron was that the truce ultimately got here, however bypassing the Elysée Palace.
The ultimate peace was established by Russia in coordination with Turkey. On November 9-10, 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a tripartite declaration to finish the battle.
The identical assertion additionally contained various factors (the Lachin Hall, the unblocking of transport routes, the withdrawal of the Armenian military from Karabakh and the return of three extra areas to Azerbaijan), which de facto turned the doc right into a prototype of a peace settlement. In parallel, Russia and Turkey established a monitoring heart in Agdam. Each there and there, France is gone, however there may be Recep Tayyip Erdogan, hated by Macron, and the geopolitical enemy in Ukraine – Putin.
Macron’s battle with Erdogan went even additional than with Putin. Erdogan accused Macron of Islamophobia, a “most cancers of the mind,” and Paris was livid as a result of the Turkish army kicked France out of Libya and pushed their allies in Greece and Cyprus away from fuel fields.
The current defeat of Armenia on this case additionally means the defeat of France within the South Caucasus. The one software for geopolitical affect within the face of the OSCE Minsk Group turned out to be “lifeless”, as Aliyev put it. And that is true.
France didn’t settle down on this matter. At first she took the trail of aggravation.
On November 25, 2020, that’s, instantly after the 44-day battle, the French Senate acknowledged Nagorno-Karabakh as an impartial state. Macron renounced this initiative, however Baku remembered it.
Later, the Frenchman tried to interrupt via via diplomacy. Within the fall of 2022, he organized a gathering between Aliyev and Pashinyan in Prague. Erdogan was additionally invited there. The negotiations grew to become breakthrough as a result of then Pashinyan for the primary time acknowledged the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, or de facto – acknowledged Karabakh as Azerbaijani.
Alongside the best way, Macron tried to fend off Russia, accusing it of escalating the battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Aliyev didn’t admire this “praise”. Within the additional negotiations with Pashinyan, he set a situation – that Macron shouldn’t be current.
Regardless of Paris’s efforts to combine itself into peacekeeping, its chances are high getting slimmer. Aliyev accepted solely the mediation of Brussels, the place France’s voice was matched by the opposite three dozen EU international locations.
French politicians continued to tease Baku. The latter didn’t neglect not solely the decision of the Senate, but additionally the journeys of the French presidential candidates to Armenia and Karabakh, particularly the pinnacle of the province of Ile-de-France, Valérie Pecres, accompanied by Senator Bruno Retaillo and the previous Minister of Overseas Affairs of France and the previous European Commissioner Michel Barnier.
When the Azerbaijani army took management of the Lachine Hall, official Paris accused Azerbaijan of a “blockade of Karabakh”. The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo traveled to Armenia and took part in sending humanitarian help to Karabakh. She known as the restriction of entry by Azerbaijani border guards “genocide”.
The final chord of France’s anti-Azerbaijani course was the final “counter-terrorist operation” in Karabakh.
On September 19, Paris known as for an emergency assembly of the Safety Council to sentence Azerbaijan’s army operation “utilizing heavy weapons.” On September 21, when the whole lot was already prepared and the Azerbaijani armed forces took management of the area, Macron restricted himself to a phone dialog with Aliyev and requested him to provide ensures for the safety of the Armenians.
However this step solely worsened the state of affairs for France. The Europeans have scheduled talks in Granada between Pashinyan and Aliyev for October 5 to finalize a peaceable disengagement. Nonetheless, Aliyev refused to go there due to Macron’s presence.
The above solely describes the actions of the Macron administration and politicians throughout his time in workplace.
Beforehand, the French authorities additionally held a pro-Armenian line, but it surely manifested itself way more clearly within the final three years – on the time of the escalation of the battle. The help is expounded not solely to the truth that Armenia started to lose, but additionally to the political adjustments in Yerevan.
Till 2018, Yerevan’s alliance with Moscow appeared unshakable, however after the beginning of Pashinyan’s premiership, Armenia started to maneuver in the direction of the West. Though Karabakh was misplaced to Armenia, France continued to help it. The information that Armenia may obtain French air protection methods comes in step with Pashinyan’s accusations of Moscow’s “unreliability” and Russia’s destructive position within the South Caucasus. Generally plainly the speeches of Macron and Pashinyan have been written with the identical pen.
Criticism of France by Russia and Azerbaijan pursues completely different targets. The Kremlin is irritated by the availability of arms and cash to Kiev, Aliyev by Paris’s help for Armenian separatism. Nonetheless, each Putin and Aliyev in the end hit the identical goal. Now Aliyev is reproducing the anti-colonial rhetoric that has sounded more and more clear in Putin’s latest speeches. Though the Kremlin, after all, shouldn’t be restricted to France, it criticizes the neo-colonial insurance policies of the USA and Nice Britain.
A method or one other, the geopolitics of the South Caucasus after 2020 is being in-built a brand new approach. Pashinyan is already keen to affix the European Union, launching one anti-Russian assault after one other, and Aliyev, making an attempt to take care of a multi-vector coverage, nonetheless can not get together with one of many leaders of the EU and NATO.
We are going to see what these diametrically opposed actions will result in. However the dispute between Baku and Paris, from the viewpoint of Moscow’s pursuits, partially offsets Yerevan’s drift in the direction of the EU.
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