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| Russian foreign ministry spox Zakharova warns about Paris's steps in the Caucasus after the failure in Africa |
| 2024-03-12 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] France is trying to present itself as a peacemaker in Transcaucasia, despite the fact that it was Russia that took over the peacekeeping function in Nagorno-Karabakh. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. “We understand that this has nothing to do with peacekeeping. It was our country that took on and fulfilled the entire peacekeeping role, even in the context of the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement as a mediator,” she said in the “Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov” program on the Russia 1 channel. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry believes that the increased activity of France in this region will compensate for the failure of French policy in Africa for Paris. As Regnum reported, on February 23, French Defense Minister Sebastian Lecornu noted that France is ready to supply Armenia with short-, medium- and other-range air defense missiles if Yerevan needs them. At the end of February, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan paid an official visit to France. Following the meeting, French President Emmanuel Macron said that Paris supports efforts to establish a just and sustainable peace in the Transcaucasus. In October 2022, Pashinyan, at a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Prague, recognized Nagorno-Karabakh as Azerbaijani territory based on the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration. |
| Posted by:badanov |