Around 85,000 people are now fleeing from Nagorno-Karabakh – Azerbaijan

2023-09-29 09:55:09

Yerevan/Vienna/Stepanakert – After Azerbaijan recaptured the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict region in the South Caucasus, almost 85,000 people have sought refuge in Armenia. Government spokeswoman Naseli Bagdassarian said on Friday in the Armenian capital Yerevan that these were people who had been forced to leave their homeland. According to official, unverifiable information, 120,000 Karabakh Armenians previously lived in the region.