ArmInfo. The co-presidents of the CCAF thank Emmanuel Macron who received them on Monday, January 23, at the Elys‚e Palace, to discuss the dramatic situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, which has been subject to a blockade by Azerbaijan since last December 12, and the threats that weigh on the territorial integrity of Armenia, armenews.com.
Mourad Papazian and Ara Toranian expressed to the President of the Republic the concerns of the 500,000 French people of Armenian origin, descendants of survivors of the 1915 genocide still denied by Turkey, about the safety of what remains of them. 'Armenians on their land. They notably drew the president's attention to the humanitarian disaster they are facing in Nagorno-Karabakh and hoped for an initiative from France to come to their aid, at this critical moment for their future.
The co-presidents welcome the attention given to them by Emmanuel Macron and hope that France will play an increasingly active role in the responsibility to protect the population of Nagorno-Karabakh, currently threatened by ethnic cleansing, as well as to enforce the territorial integrity of Armenia and international law, in this strategic region of the world particularly exposed to the risk of a new war.
In his turn, Jean-Christophe Buisson, Deputy Director of Le Figaro tweeted that French President Emmanuel Macron received Sylvain Tesson, Pascal Bruckner, Olivier Weber, Youri Djorkaeff and him.
"We voiced our anger to him on behalf of the intellectual world of France at the indifference to the drama of the Armenians of Artsakh, threatened with ethnic cleansing by the Azeris," he tweeted.