Azerbaijan intensifies anti-colonial rhetoric targeting France
Azerbaijan intensifies anti-colonial rhetoric targeting France
by pride_of_artaxias
Azerbaijan intensifies anti-colonial rhetoric targeting France
Azerbaijan intensifies anti-colonial rhetoric targeting France
by pride_of_artaxias
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>In a move reflecting simmering diplomatic tensions with France, Azerbaijan hosted the “First Congress of Independence Movements from French-Colonised Territories” on 17-18 July.
>Organised by the Baku Initiative Group (BIG), an NGO closely linked to the Azerbaijani government, the event gathered pro-independence activists from regions including French Polynesia and New Caledonia.
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>During the conference, Abbas Abbasov, head of BIG, announced plans to offer scholarships to “young people from countries struggling with colonialism” to study in Azerbaijan. He also revealed that an exhibition on “the history of colonialism” will be featured at the upcoming COP29 in Baku in November.
>“French pioneers of democracy” violate human rights in colonized regions, and the BIG has effectively delivered the reality in above-mentioned regions through international events to the global community,” Abbasov said in an interview on 15 May.
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>Ahead of hosting COP29, the Azerbaijani authorities have ramped up the crackdown on the remaining vestiges of the country’s civil society. In 2024, Freedom House rated Azerbaijan among the “not free” countries, giving it seven out of 100 points in the Global Freedom Index.
>The country currently ranks 164th among 180 countries in the annual Press Freedom Index of Reporters Without Borders.
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>A key component of this coalition-building strategy is the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS), which includes nations leaning towards strong rulers, such as Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan, as well as Hungary, Turkmenistan, and the unrecognised Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus holding observer status.
>During the opening session of the OTS meeting in Shusha on 6 July, President Aliyev expressed a desire for the organisation to evolve into an “influential global entity” capable of protecting regional interests and practices from external influence.
>The OTS, important for the expansion of the East-West transport corridor, also reflects the increasingly anti-Western orientation in Baku’s new foreign policy.
>“Should we bow to those who do not want to accept us somewhere? Absolutely not! Our family is the Turkic world. We feel perfectly fine there. We have brotherly relations with all countries that are members of the Organisation of Turkic States, and our policy is to solidify the [OTS],” Aliyev said in his inauguration speech in February.
>Turning away from the West, Baku is also shifting its focus to the non-Turkic East, aiming to become a full member of BRICS and seeking observer status in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
>“Unlike Western institutions, such alliances are more convenient for Aliyev since they don’t care about human rights or democracy,” former Azerbaijani diplomat Emin Shaig told Euractiv.
Racist dictators sure like call everything about the West “colonial”, unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality, and often their own colonial ambitions.
Colonialism is when I’m prevented from threatening my neighbour as much as I’d like to.
Good , sucks that they are doing it but the world should be reminded everyday of the crimes of france in africa
The real goal of this rhetoric is the colonised and occupied Cyprus. The peace talks have collapsed and Turkey seeks to isolate us in order to extract maximum and unilateral concessions.
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Hi, were Azerbaijan with claims to Armenia but habe the balls to call France imperial.
Why is Azerbaijan still a country? When will it be eradicated? They bring nothing to the world
They’re really stuck in soviet mentality. Antagonising france for being receptive to armenians cosying up to them is the opposite of what they should be doing.
If you don’t like armenia becoming friends with france you should become an irreplaceable friend to france who’s more reliable – that’s how you sideline armenia… not by being cunts because you can’t just bully france, or any other eu nation, with your tiny arse gassy economy and farcical bureaucratic force of barely educated amateurs
Only thing I know about Azerbaijan is that guy who cooks big meals in nature for those village kids.
Most of the overseas regions clearly voted to remain part of France, have the same status as the mainland and are well represented in parliament, some like New Caledonia or French Polynesia are largely autonomous from the mainland. The people in them are alI french, a lot of them have french culture and consider themselves just as french as someone from the mainland. I think all would lose greatly economically if they were to be completely independent