2024-06-30 00:14:22
The speech of Lilit Galstyan, a member of the RA delegation, on the plenary session of the OSCE PA winter session in Vienna.
“Expensive Colleagues,
I need to increase a number of points associated to the safety disaster in Armenia.
In Vancouver, on the OSCE PA Annual Meeting, we adopted a decision calling on Azerbaijan to instantly expel armed teams from the sovereign territories of Armenia, instantly open unhindered visitors by the Lachin Hall, and launch all detainees.
Earlier, each the Worldwide Court docket and the European Court docket of Human Rights handed selections/judgments with the identical content material. All these selections, together with the Vancouver declaration, weren’t solely violated by Azerbaijan, but additionally many statements had been made by the nation’s excessive management that worldwide ideas and worldwide establishments have exhausted themselves.
After a brutal nine-month siege adopted by army assaults, with no dependable worldwide safety ensures, leaving the three,000-year-old homeland was the one cheap choice for 120,000 ethnic Armenians, which basically meant the destruction of their tradition, identification and political rights.
My many legitimate appeals to my colleagues to lift their voices for justice remained unanswered.
We may have averted this tragic web page of ethnic cleaning if we had proven political will and held the aggressor Azerbaijan accountable for warfare crimes.
Lately, the Parliamentary Meeting of the Council of Europe refused to ratify the credentials of the Azerbaijani delegation, justifying it with Azerbaijan’s undemocratic course, condemning the 2023 the September army operations in Nagorno-Karabakh, which led to mass displacement.
In the present day, the management of Azerbaijan misleads the worldwide group by declaring that the battle is over and it’s essential to dissolve the OSCE Minsk Group.
Quite the opposite, we should always make efforts and procure secure ensures for the return of the Armenian inhabitants of Artsakh to their homeland, and to guard their historic, cultural and different human rights.
The Armenian folks count on and count on complete help for the settlement of the battle from the OSCE.”