Reuters. France will not leave Armenia alone. Our values and principles cannot be bought with either gas or oil, said Emmanuel Macron in an interview with France 2. French President said, France has special ties with Armenia because Armenia has always fought for tolerance and peace in the region.
Macron accused Russia on of purposefully provoking the recent clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan as part of an effort destabilise the Caucasus region and beyond.
The worst fighting between the two ex-Soviet countries since 2020 broke out in late September, killing more than 200 people.
"What's been happening on the border the last two years ... 5,000 Russian soldiers are allegedly there to guarantee the border, (but) the Russians have used this conflict which dated back several centuries and played Azerbaijan's game with Turkish complicity and came back to weaken Armenia which was once a country it was close to", Macron said.
"You see what's happening? It's an effort by Russia to destabilise. It wants to create disorder in the Caucasus to destabilise all of us", Macron concluded.
