ArmInfo. "I do not agree with those people or authorities or international actors who, speaking about the rights of the people of Artsakh, do not also mean the right of self-determination of the people of Artsakh," Artsakh State Minister Gurgen Nersisyan states.
"In the current international relations, the circumstance when 120,000 people starve to death, are tortured, and then they are told: if you don't want to starve, suffer, go to negotiations, should be considered as savagery and terrorism.
The authorities of Artsakh are not against Artsakh-Azerbaijani contacts, but during the negotiations, the possibility of exercising the rights of the parties in accordance with international norms must be guaranteed and protected by international mechanisms. However, these guarantees must be convincing and credible," Artsakh Information Headquarters quotes Nersisyan. The State Minister recalled that Artsakh has been under siege for more than six months, Azerbaijan is constantly using force or threatening to use force against the people of Artsakh.
"The people of Artsakh are deprived of gas supply, energy supply, the opportunity to receive proper medical care, sufficient food, the elderly, pregnant women, children and newborns are deprived of access to the necessary care items and medicines.
If this is how the internationally guaranteed protection of the rights of the people of Artsakh looks like, then we must state that we do not have reliable and convincing guarantees of security and rights," the NKR State Minister concluded.