Forecast: France will take Turkey`s place in the region

ArmInfo.The place, which, judging by all the latest geopolitical tendencies in the South Caucasus, Russia is so consistently preparing for Turkey, should be occupied by  France, which sooner or later will be. A similar opinion was  expressed to ArmInfo by representative of the "National Democratic  Pole" Zhirayr Sefilyan.

"The consistently tightening of the encirclement around Putin's  Russia, the absence of allies of this regime, are only part of the  tendencies in favor of such a scenario. There are enough tendencies  in favor of Russia's withdrawal from our region. After all, the  appearance of the same Turkey in the South Caucasus for the first  time in the last hundred years was exclusively with Moscow's  consent," he stressed.

According to his forecasts, sooner or later Russia will leave the  South Caucasus and this, first of all, should concern Armenia today,  At least because, the withdrawal of Russia will be accompanied by the  inevitable arrival of Turkey. That is why today Armenia, in the  opinion of the politician, needs real allies more than ever. Sefilyan  is convinced that if Armenia is not ready Russia's leaving today,  then the vacuum formed after its departure will inevitably be filled  by Turkey.

The representative of the "National Democratic Pole" sees in the  recent geopolitical processes a number of prerequisites for the  consolidation of the collective West in another arena of global  confrontation with Russia in Ukraine. And according to his forecasts,  after the solution of the Ukrainian question, the turn of the South  Caucasus will inevitably come.

Commenting on the last European voyage of acting Prime Minister of  Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, the oppositionist noted that one should not  expect any changes in the European agenda of Armenia, or rather in  its absence, from Pashinyan, or especially from his visit. However,  the statements from Paris that preceded this visit and made on its  results, in his opinion, allow predicting a rather serious French  presence in Armenia in the near future, moreover, not only economic,  but also military.

According to Sefilyan's assessments, the Armenian authorities  periodically reject all the initiatives of the West in the direction  of increasing its presence in the country. But in the Armenian  society, albeit not on the desired scale, there is still an  understanding of the situation. And Western intervention in the same  current, unacceptable situation at the borders is also possible, in  the event that Armenia asks for this help, for a start, at least at  the public level. According to the politician, this is becoming a  necessity.

"It is clear that while the Pashinyans are in power, there will be no  official appeal. Accordingly, the key to the formation of this appeal  is getting rid of the Pashinyans. I consider Pashinyan's visit to  Paris and Brussels in the context of the election campaign.  Obviously, in this way he wants to demonstrate to voters what today  there is simply no  the presence of a European vector in his own  policy. In reality, Pashinyan visit to Europe in order not to  interfere with the implementation of the anti-Armenian  Russian-Turkish plan.  And very soon it will become finally clear  what this is about, "Sefilyan summed up. On June 1 in Paris, RA  acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with French President  Emmanuel Macron, Speaker of the French National Assembly Richard  Ferrand, Senate President Gerard Larcher, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo.   On June 2, Pashinyan left for Brussels, where he met with his Belgian  counterpart Alexander De Croo.