French far-right politician and candidate in the 2022 French presidential election Éric Zemmour has arrived in Armenia, according to information and photos posted by Zemmour on Facebook.

Zemmour has so far visited the Armenian Genocide memorial, Khor Virap monastery and the Armenian-Turkish border.

"On the border between Armenia and Turkey, facing Mount Ararat, I want to tell the Armenians how they have been a model of resistance for centuries," Zemmour captioned the pictures.

During a visit to the monastery of Khor Virap, his first overseas trip as a candidate, Zemmour invoked what he described as a historical clash between Christianity and Islam.

“It is the great confrontation between Christianity and Islam which is reborn today,” he said, according to the Middle East Eye. “We see it here with a Christian nation, which intends to remain so, in the middle of an Islamic ocean.”