News - Sluggish attempt by French diplomacy to play on Karabakh issue, says Zakharova about French FM’s visit to Yerevan

The visit of the French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna to Yerevan is a sluggish attempt by the French diplomacy to play on the Karabakh issue, Russian Foreign Ministry representative Maria Zakharova has said, commenting on Colonna’s statements made in Yerevan. “… If I were Catherine Colonna, I would keep silent about guarantees and obligations in connection with the settlement of relations between countries where France calls itself or considers itself a mediator. Again a lie, again a sluggish attempt by the French diplomacy to play on the Karabakh issue, on the difficult humanitarian situation of the Armenian population who left the region,” she said. According to her, Russia’s developments in resolving the situation began to be shamelessly copied by the EU and the United States, and then simply distorted to suit their interests, without caring about the population of this region. According to her, the groundwork by Russia to resolve the situation began to be shamelessly copied by the EU and the United States, and then simply distorted to suit their interests, without caring about the population of this region. “What did France do, what did Brussels, the entire EU do? Specific actions? It is useless to contact Washington on this track... Apart from words, apart from this endless, protracted global PR campaign? They convinced the Armenian authorities to forget about the rights and safety of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh, which resulted in the current crisis. The only question is that when, under the auspices of Brussels, and I think at the behest of the United States, the Armenian leadership assumed new obligations, they in no way recorded the status, security and guarantees of the residents of Nagorno-Karabakh,” Zakharova said.