The statement of the RA Foreign Ministry in connection with the recent statements of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.
“There will be no peace agreement,” this is a quote from the speech of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on March 18, 2023.
Aliyev made this statement in the Talish village of Nagorno-Karabakh, which was depopulated as a result of the 44-day war.
As in Talish, as well as in other regions depopulated by the 44-day war, Azerbaijan is openly implementing resettlement programs in an attempt to eliminate the Armenian footprint from the territories of Nagorno-Karabakh that have passed under its control. At the beginning of the 90s, Shahumyan region, Getashen sub-region, and other settlements with a large Armenian population also suffered a similar fate.
The above-mentioned actions of Azerbaijan are in direct contradiction to point 7 of the tripartite statement of November 9, 2020, according to which internally displaced persons and refugees return to the Nagorno-Karabakh territory and adjacent regions under the supervision of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
With the policy of illegal resettlement and the practice of terrorizing the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh, official Baku is doing everything to make the fulfillment of the above-mentioned provision of the tripartite declaration impossible.
Azerbaijan is doing everything to make peace in the region impossible. 2022 On October 6 in Prague and on October 31 in Sochi, the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan adopted statements according to which Armenia and Azerbaijan adhere to the UN Charter and the 1991 Convention. On the basis of the Alma-Ata Declaration, they recognize each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, and the demarcation process between the two countries should take place exclusively on this basis. Despite this, on March 18, the president of Azerbaijan again announced that the border demarcation should take place under the conditions set by Azerbaijan and has been continuously talking about some historical maps for a long time.
Azerbaijan not only keeps the Republic of Armenia under occupation in 2021. May 12, November 17, 2022 illegally occupied sovereign territories in September, but also introduced the so-called “Western Azerbaijan” discourse and declares practically the entire territory of the Republic of Armenia as Azerbaijani land.
This means the expression of open aspirations towards practically the entire sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia. Azerbaijan also threatens Armenia if the latter does not accept these aspirations.
Azerbaijan continues the gross violations of the trilateral and quadrilateral declarations adopted in various formats, and in practice there is not a single clause of these declarations left that Azerbaijan has not violated, starting with the illegal closure of the Lachin Corridor, and continuing to keep Armenian prisoners, hostages, and other detained persons in illegal detention until today. , and ended up obstructing the opening of regional communications with groundless corridor talk.
Moreover, the President of Azerbaijan has violated the commitment he made on February 18, 2023, to discuss the issue of their rights and guarantees with the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Just a few weeks after that announcement, Azerbaijan announced that it was going to discuss the issue of “integration of the Armenians of Karabakh”, and the statements made in Talish, the illegal blockade of the Lachin Corridor, the terrorist attack on March 5 prove that Azerbaijan intends to resolve the issue of at least the assimilation of the Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh. , and Armenia’s alarms about official Baku’s preparations to subject the Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians to genocide should not be ignored by the international community.
In the speech of the last period, Azerbaijan found a new accusation against the Republic of Armenia, accusing it of being mono-ethnic and trying to create the impression that, unlike Armenia, Azerbaijan is a multi-ethnic country. According to the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, 4 national minorities have a mandate in the highest legislative power of the country, and there is no such regulation in Azerbaijan, which considers itself multinational.
The evaluation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia is unequivocal. With its aggressive speech and actions, Azerbaijan is preparing to subject the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh to genocide and new aggression towards Armenia.
In the current situation, it is necessary to launch the international mechanisms for the prevention of genocides, send an international fact-finding mission to the Lachin Corridor and Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as direct condemnation of Azerbaijan’s aggressive actions and policies. At the same time, the Republic of Armenia expresses its confidence in the peace agenda of November 9, 2020, 2021. January 11, 2022 October 31 tripartite and 2022 on the basis of the October 6 quadrilateral declarations”.