Tuesday, October 17 2023 15:13

ArmInfo. Despite hundreds of warnings, the international community was unable to prevent the  ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this on October 17 at a plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

"It's sad that despite hundreds of signals, decisions of the  International Court, the European Parliament, PACE and resolutions of  the parliaments of individual countries, calls from executive bodies,  the international community, all of us, were unable to prevent the  ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Nagorno- Karabakh," Pashinyan said.

He reminded that three sessions of the UN Security Council had taken  place, which had no results. As a result, all Armenians of  Nagorno-Karabakh left their homes.

"In the conditions of inactivity of the Russian peacekeeping forces,  more than 100 thousand Armenians left their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh  in a week, another 20 thousand were forced to leave Nagorno-Karabakh  immediately after the 44-day war, and some were not able to return  home due to the illegal blockade of the Lachin corridor,"  he said.

Today, some are pretending that they do not understand why the  Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh left their homes en masse, he noted.  "Such a question looks like cynicism, because the answer is more than  clear - Azerbaijan had clearly and unequivocally shown its decision  to make the life of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh impossible. Since  December 2022, during the illegal blockade of the Lachin corridor,  the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh have been deprived of external  supplies of gas, electricity, food, baby food, medicine and other  essential items. The citizens carrying out agricultural work were  under the target of the gun of the armed forces of Azerbaijan,"  Pashinyan said.