Friday, September 22 2023 10:09

ArmInfo.On the sidelines of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, RA  Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan met with German Foreign Minister Annalena  Baerbock. 

As the press service of the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports,  the core of the discussion was the situation in Nagorno Karabakh.  Ararat Mirzoyan noted that the aggression unleashed by Azerbaijan  against the population of Nagorno Karabakh on September 19, after  more than 9 months of blockade, clearly shows Baku's intention to  subject Nagorno Karabakh to ethnic cleansing.

The imperative of preventing crimes in Nagorno-Karabakh was  emphasized, as well as the importance of resolving issues of the  rights and security of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh in the context  of long-term peace in the region.  The parties also mutually pointed  out the inadmissibility of solving existing problems through the use  of force and the threat of force.

On September 19, Azerbaijan, under the pretext of an anti-terrorist  operation, undertook another act of aggression against Artsakh. As a  result of enemy aggression, hundreds of Artsakh residents were  injured, more than 200 were reported killed, including civilians,  more than 400 were wounded, and another 7,000 were evacuated. On  September 20, Artsakh fell. Azerbaijan began the forcible subjugation  of the NKR.  Thousands of Artsakh civilians are now at the deployment  point of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Ivanyan. There are  reports that Azerbaijan is not allowing them to be evacuated to  Armenia.