After talks with official Baku, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan did not allow French President Emmanuel Macron to cross his country’s land border from Armenia.
Medianews.az reports that this was written by Azerbaijan's "AZfront" Telegram channel.
Macron, who was on a visit to Yerevan on May 3-5 to participate in a series of events, planned to set out for Turkey through the land border, which is closed from there, to meet Erdoğan and make a "politically symbolic" gesture.
According to several informed sources who informed the publication, the trip had been previously agreed upon with various representatives of the Turkish side. However, when the matter was raised to the level of the Turkish head of state, after discussions with his strategic ally - Azerbaijan, he gave a negative response to Macron.
"Probably, Macron hoped to turn his visit from Armenia to Turkey into a demonstration of his diplomatic weight against the background of international criticism of his failed foreign policy. The French president’s crossing of the Turkey-Armenia border, which has been closed for over 30 years, could have been an unprecedented example of a third party opening bilateral communications.
Having lost Africa and the Middle East, damaging relations with Israel, and achieving nothing on the Ukraine front, Macron, with this failed attempt, once again highlighted the gap between his geopolitical ambitions and Paris’s real weight on the international stage," the publication wrote, also citing an article in "Le Journal du Dimanche" titled "French diplomacy is rapidly losing its importance during Macron’s era." /"Report"