40 French MPs Urge Macron to Recognize Artsakh's Right to Self-Determination

Forty members of the French Parliament have sent a letter to President Emmanuel Macron, calling for an end to the policy of neutrality in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. This was announced by Guy Teen, a member of the French National Assembly and president of the "France-Artsakh" friendship group, who published the text of his letter to President Macron on his Twitter account, which was signed by 39 other parliamentarians.

In the introductory part of the letter, the French MP outlined the military operations that began on September 27, stating that France, like the rest of Europe, which is facing conflict at its doorstep, should not be satisfied with a cold indifference in its current stance. Despite French diplomacy not sparing any efforts within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group, the parliamentarian remarked, “By the way, other regional countries have contributed to making this neutrality impossible,” pointing to Turkey.

Confronted with this tragedy in the Caucasus, I urge France to act in accordance with its international obligations. Only international recognition, as in the case of Kosovo, will allow the Republic of Artsakh to emerge from this illegal situation that deprives it of any international support, even humanitarian aid, and encourages Azerbaijan and Turkey to carry out ethnic cleansing as a persistent political solution.

I allow myself to add this sentence from the Artsakh Human Rights Defender Artak Beglaryan: “I am blind, but I act, while the international community sees but does not act,” concluded Guy Teen in his letter to Emmanuel Macron.