You may recall that on December 21, France and Armenia convened a UN Security Council meeting to discuss the situation on the Lachin road in Azerbaijan.
Following discussions, France, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council and its current president (permanent and non-permanent members hold the Council’s rotating presidency for one month each), drafted a pro-Armenian statement that described the situation on the Lachin-Khankendi road as a humanitarian crisis.
It is noteworthy that from France, the process was managed for ten days directly by the administration of the President of France and Emmanuel Macron’s foreign policy advisors.
Paris believed that it could push through its pro-Armenian statement in the UN Security Council and then, as the next step, turn it into a resolution.
However, France, a permanent member of the UN Security Council and its current president, was unable to have the statement on the situation on the Lachin road adopted in ten days, and Paris ultimately abandoned the idea altogether.
France’s initiative was opposed by Great Britain, the UAE, Russia, and Albania.