Monday, August 28 2023 20:47

ArmInfo.The statement of French President Emmanuel Macron at the conference of ambassadors on  the difficult humanitarian situation around Artsakh again provoked an inadequate reaction from Baku.

Thus, head of the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of  the Republic of Azerbaijan Aykhan Hajizadeh, commenting on Macron's  statement, assured that these statements allegedly "form a wrong  impression of the existing situation in the region and protect  Armenia unilaterally, damage the peace process, and indicate the  fallacy of the policies of Paris."

"It is unacceptable for the President of France to use such  expressions as the "Lachin Humanitarian Corridor" in the lexicon,  speak the language of pressure, this is disrespect for the  territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan," Hajizadeh  noted, and began to talk nonsense that through the checkpoint, by the  way illegally installed one, Armenians pass by every day. Of course,  he did not tell what these people go through, and some of them do not  reach their final destination at all, such as, for example, the three  young people from Artsakh kidnapped by enemy forces.

"It would be more useful if the French side, which claims that France  is the author of initiatives for the EU mission in Prague and the  recognition of borders in the framework of the Alma-Ata Declaration  of 1991, answered the question why it has not come up with such  initiatives over the past 30 years.

The Azerbaijani side is determined to ensure peace and security in  the region, and will resolutely suppress outside interference that  impedes this process," the representative of the Azerbaijani Foreign  Ministry said.  As ArmInfo previously reported, the President of  France, speaking at the annual conference of ambassadors, announced  that he would come up with a new diplomatic initiative to resolve the  conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.

"This week I will talk with Prime Minister Pashinyan and President  Aliyev. We will demand full respect for the Lachin Humanitarian  Corridor and will again take a diplomatic initiative in this  direction at the international level to increase pressure," Macron  said.

Artsakh has been under siege by Azerbaijan since December 12, 2022.  120,000 Artsakh residents are deprived of basic human rights and  livelihoods. Death from malnutrition has already been recorded in the  Republic. In parallel with the siege, enemy forces are targeting  civilians and units of the Artsakh Defense Army. People are kidnapped  from an illegally installed checkpoint in the Kashatagh (Lachin)  corridor. The humanitarian situation in Artsakh is getting worse  every day. The international community dismisses the situation with  only dry calls to Yerevan and Baku to show constructivism.