ANCA welcomes the adoption by the French Senate of a resolution on  the need to recognize Artsakh and urges the United States to follow  suit

ArmInfo.ANCA welcomes the adoption by the French Senate of the resolution on the need to recognize the independence of Artsakh, and calls on the US  administration and Congress leaders to take similar measures as part  of a broader effort to bring about a just and lasting peace in the  region. This is stated in the message of the Armenian National  Committee of America (ANCA), received by ArmInfo.

"We welcome the general recognition of Artsakh by the French Senate  and call on the United States - as the co-chairing country of the  OSCE Minsk Group - to join the recognition of Artsakh's status as a  free and independent republic," said ANCA Executive Director Aram  Ambaryan. At the same time, he added that the Aliyev (President of  Azerbaijan) regime, guilty of incessant war crimes against the  citizens of Artsakh for several weeks, has no legal, political or  moral grounds to oppose the international recognition of Artsakh's  independence.

Ambaryan also called on Artsakh supporters to call on President  Trump, President-elect Biden, Senators and Members of the House of  Representatives to recognize Nagorno-Karabakh, through this platform  - https://anca.org/RecognizeArtsakh.

It should be noted that the day before, the French Senate, with 305  votes "for" and one against, adopted a resolution on the need to  recognize the independence of Nagorno Karabakh, which was represented  by 5 political factions.

The resolution, among other provisions, invites the French government  to recognize the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic; condemns the aggression  of Azerbaijan against Artsakh with the participation of Turkey and  foreign mercenaries, demanding the withdrawal of troops from the  territories seized after September 27; also requires the government  to make every effort to restore the negotiation process within the  framework of the OSCE Minsk Group, which will restore the borders  from 1994, which in turn will ensure the safety of the Armenian  population and the return of internally displaced persons, as well as  protect the Armenian cultural and religious heritage. Pointing in the  resolution to the Armenian pogroms in Baku, Sumgait, Kirovabad and  Maragha, and referring to the reports of the Commission on Racism and  Intolerance of the Council of Europe and the UN Committee on Racial  Discrimination (CERD) on Azerbaijan, it was pointed out that it is  impossible for the Armenian population to live in Azerbaijan.

The adoption by the French Senate of this resolution was already  welcomed by the Armenian Foreign Ministry, Artsakh Foreign Ministry,  Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II, Catholicos of the Great House  of Cilicia Aram I, RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

In Baku, they criticized this resolution, calling the document a  piece of paper.