2023-09-23 19:49:00
Azerbaijan promised Saturday at the UN to treat Armenians, the majority in the secessionist region of Nagorno Karabakh, as “equal citizens”.
By NJ with AFP Azerbaijan’s foreign minister reaffirmed “Armenian residents of the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan as equal citizens.” (Illustrative image) © EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP Published on 09/23/2023 at 7:49 p.m.
Before the UN General Assembly, this Saturday, September 23, the Azerbaijani Minister of Foreign Affairs, Djeyhoun Baïramov, assured of Azerbaijan’s determination to “reintegrate the Armenian inhabitants of the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan as equal citizens.”
“The Constitution, national legislation of Azerbaijan and the international commitments we have made are a solid basis for this goal,” he added.
Armenian separatists surrendered
Azerbaijan launched an operation at the start of the week in this secessionist region mainly populated by Armenians, winning a lightning victory. Armenian separatists agreed to surrender their arms on Friday.
This mountainous enclave, which had been attached in 1921 by Soviet power to Azerbaijani territory, had in the past been the scene of two wars between the former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia: one from 1988 to 1994 (30,000 deaths) and the other in the fall of 2020 (6,500 deaths).
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