Mr President dont look elsewhere Pascal Bruckners letter to Emmanuel

“Mr President, don’t look elsewhere”: Pascal Bruckner’s letter to Emmanuel Macron for Armenia

Pascal Bruckner. SAMEER AL-DOUMY / AFP

FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE – After the military operation led by Baku on September 19 in Nagorno-Karabakh, the writer turned to the head of state. According to him, it is an honor for France to come to the aid of the Armenians in this enclave.

Latest work by Pascal Bruckner: “The Rite of Slippers. On renouncing the world”, Grasset, 2022, 162 pp., 18 €.

Mister President,

Azerbaijan has been bombarding Stepanakaert since the morning of September 19, and France is searching elsewhere.

Nine months ago, a delegation of Armenian intellectuals, writers, journalists and personalities, including footballer Youri Djorkaeff, met you at the Élysée Palace to discuss the dramatic situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, this mountainous Armenian enclave. It is surrounded by the Azerbaijani army and is subject to total blockade. At the time, you seemed to be fully aware of the situation and even emphasized how volatile and dangerous it was and that there was the potential for escalation. You had agreed to us, even though you recognized the great loneliness of France on this issue: “We are the specialists in desperate causes,” you said, to convene a major humanitarian conference, which was canceled a day before the scheduled date, and…

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