2023-09-23 23:39:04
Armenia has called for a UN mission to secure the population following Azerbaijan’s military victory in Nagorno-Karabakh. The UN must immediately send troops to “monitor and assess the human rights and security situation on the ground,” Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Saturday. His Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov emphasized Baku’s willingness to treat the Armenian population as equal citizens of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia accuses Azerbaijan of planning ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The area belongs to Azerbaijan under international law, but is predominantly inhabited by Armenians. Armenian Foreign Minister Mirzoyan drew a parallel to the 1994 Rwandan genocide in his speech at the UN General Debate in New York.
As a result, the United Nations created preventive mechanisms to prevent a similar crime. Today the world is “on the verge of another failure” in Nagorno-Karabakh, Mirzoyan said.
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Bayramov said in his speech at the general debate that Muslim-majority Azerbaijan would respect the rights of Christian Armenians. His country is “determined to reintegrate the Armenian residents of the Karabakh region into Azerbaijan as equal citizens.” Baku sees a “historic opportunity” for Azerbaijan and Armenia to create “good neighborly relations.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, meanwhile, accused Armenia of “adding fuel to the fire every now and then” with regard to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Referring to a senior Armenian politician who accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of handing over Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan, Lavrov said the accusation was “ridiculous.” With the Alma-Ata Declaration signed shortly before the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, Nagorno-Karabakh “simply” became part of Azerbaijan, Lavrov said.
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