The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Paris’s attempts to drive a wedge in Moscow’s relations with Baku and Yerevan are doomed to failure and will reduce France’s authority in the region.
In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said: “Paris’s attempts to drive a wedge into Russia’s relations with Azerbaijan and Armenia, which are close to us, and which have long-standing and multifaceted relations with Russia, are doomed to failure and will lead to a fall in France’s authority in the region.”
“We consider Emmanuel Macron’s statements that Russia is using the Karabakh conflict to destabilize the South Caucasus as flagrant and absolutely unacceptable. These attacks are consistent with the anti-Russian line of the West and testify to attempts to transfer the confrontation from Ukraine to other parts of the territory of the Soviet Union, including the South Caucasus. The ridiculous slander of the French president speaks to the lack of interest on the part of Paris in establishing lasting peace in the region and casts doubt on his country’s ability to play a constructive role there.
Source: RIA Novosti