“We protest that 120,000 of our compatriots, including 30,000 children, are being genocided in Artsakh for seven months before the eyes of progressive humanity. Incompatible conditions for life are created for people to leave their homeland; it is ethnic cleansing. There was a decision of the UN International Court of Justice, PACE resolutions, but Azerbaijan ignored all that. The international community must demonstrate that it has the tools to impose the international order and conditions of coexistence on the side that despises the international community.
There are effective measures; they are the sanctions against oil corporations, against SOCAR, against Aliyev himself,” declared Artur Khachatryan, deputy of the “Armenia” faction, during a sit-in in front of the French embassy in Armenia today.
The deputy reminded that the EU countries and France have often stated that the settlement of the conflict by force is unacceptable, and the international community will condemn the side that uses force. “Now we want to see that condemnation. In Artsakh, political, mercantile interest is placed above the right to life, work, and education, which is unacceptable.”
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Artur Khachatryan also mentioned that the people of Artsakh did not authorize Nikol Pashinyan and his group to negotiate the creation of a platform with Azerbaijan. “They didn’t say: Nikol Pashinyan, go and talk about how we, as the Armenian people of Artsakh, should negotiate with Azerbaijan.
On the one hand, he said: the people of Artsakh did not elect me; I cannot act on their behalf; on the other hand, you act; who gave you that right? Regardless of whether the negotiations will be held in Washington or Brussels, if the negotiator does not protect the national interest of Armenia, nothing should be expected from him.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
