Edmon Marukyan, Ambassador with Special Assignments of Armenia, wrote in his Twitter microblog.
“Azerbaijan proves every day that it cannot even provide the narratives it formulates in front of the international community.
For example, Azerbaijan claimed they wanted to integrate the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh and were their citizens.
The international community demanded Azerbaijan take confidence-building measures and start direct negotiations with the representatives of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh, introducing an international mechanism with guarantees of the rights and security of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh. In response, before integrating Christian Armenians, Azerbaijan kills them by organizing various sabotage activities, then destroys Christian churches and monuments of Christian heritage. Therefore, Azerbaijan has no plan to integrate Christian Armenians.
Moreover, it stopped the gas and electricity supply for about seven months. It kept the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh under siege and has already registered children’s deaths due to hunger.
With these steps, Azerbaijan is committing an international criminal offense, making it clear to everyone that it does not take measures to strengthen confidence. On the contrary, it shows that the current policy doesn’t aim to integrate the Armenian people but to subject Nagorno-Karabakh to ethnic cleansing, ultimately turning it into a piece of land without a people.
Under the pressure of these apparent facts, which the circumstances have already proved, the institutions of liberal democracy of the international community must either admit that they are complicit in the starvation, killings, and ethnic cleansing of the Armenian population of Nagorno Karabakh, 120,000 citizens, including 30,000 children, or take clear steps. Take the form of international intervention to stop these crimes against humanity.
Otherwise, the 21st century will be marked by another massive violation of human rights—more precisely, an international criminal offense that the international community can still prevent.”
