Yerevan: Azerbaijan tries to involve the international community in  its campaign against human rights in Artsakh

ArmInfo. Azerbaijan is trying  to involve the international community in its campaign against human  rights in Artsakh. This is stated in the statement of the  Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Anna  Naghdalyan.

Thus, reacting to Baku's regular attacks on the electoral processes  in Artsakh, Naghdalyan stated that the Armenian side has already had  the opportunity to express its position on to this issue.

Through several statements the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia  has already expressed its position on the elections held in Artsakh  (Nagorno-Karabakh).

In this regard, I would like to only emphasize two circumstances,  Naghdalyan stated. First, in the context of the Artsakh elections,  the highest authorities of Azerbaijan have made very critical  comments towards the European human rights institutions. Indeed, this  was not accidental. It should be recalled that the European human  rights institutions made an important assessment on the parliamentary  elections held in Azerbaijan this February by which the low level of  legitimacy of those elections was revealed.

It is obvious that in a country where the power has never been  transferred through democratic process, the formation of new  authorities in Artsakh through competitive and democratic elections  should have triggered a nervous reaction.

Second, Azerbaijan tries to involve the international community in  its campaign against human rights in Artsakh. To that end, Azerbaijan  doesn't refrain from strictly selective and distorted presentation of  international reactions to these elections.

Azerbaijan attempts to ignore the key messages of the same reactions,  which refer to the role of the people of Artsakh in determining their  future, and the importance of elections from the perspective of  organizing public life in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). Meanwhile,  these messages are crucial for creating an environment conducive to  advancement of the peace process.

In our region, the formation of authorities who received the vote of  the people, who express the will of people and who are accountable  before those people, is extremely important in terms of the  transformation of conflict and the reconciliation of peoples. The  people of Artsakh took another important step in this direction on  March 31 and April 14.