Wednesday, October 4 2023 13:16

ArmInfo.The European Union, France and Germany have great opportunities to help Armenia and Azerbaijan achieve a dignified and lasting peace, reads a statement by the parties and civil society of Armenia.

The document emphasizes that the program of ethnic cleansing  of Armenians, which began in 1998 and has claimed the lives of more  than half a million people to this day, has reached its climax.   Today, the ability of the international community to protect the  inalienable right of every person to live freely in their homeland is  being questioned. At the moment, almost the entire people of Nagorno-  Karabakh have acquired refugee status. Such a solution to the Artsakh  conflict cannot be acceptable from a legal, political or moral point  of view.

Necessary conditions for overcoming the crisis and returning people  to their homeland should be the release by Azerbaijan of all captured  and arrested persons, the Azerbaijani armed forces, police and  administration should be withdrawn from the entire territory of the  former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region, and the Lachin corridor  should be under the control of the United Nations Nations.

UN-authorized peacekeeping forces must enter the territory of the  former Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and be stationed on its borders. To  reorganize the security, rights and freedoms and normal life of the  people in Nagorno-Karabakh, an administration formed by the United  Nations must act. It is obvious that the fulfillment of these  preconditions makes possible both the return of refugees and the  final settlement of the conflict through peaceful negotiations," the  statement says. It also emphasizes that during the meeting between  the Prime Minister of Armenia and the President of Azerbaijan,  scheduled for October 5 in Granada (Spain), it is necessary to  consistently protect the entity of Nagorno-Karabakh, achieving peace  without violence and coercion, while preserving human rights and  freedoms. "We are confident that the EU, France and Germany have  great opportunities to help Armenia and Azerbaijan achieve a decent  and lasting peace," emphasizes the statement, which was signed by the  Union of National Self-Determination Party, the Justice Party, the  Conservative Party, and the Ayakwe Initiative," Yeghishe Charents  House- Museum, Center for Development and Training of Information  Systems and many others.