Tuesday, November 21 2023 10:39

ArmInfo.A letter from Permanent Representative of Armenia to the United Nations Mher Margaryan on the report on the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh prepared by the First Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide Juan Mendez has been published as an official document of the UN Security Council. 

The letter dated 1 November 2023 from the Permanent Representative of  Armenia to the United Nations addressed to the President of the  Security Council reads: 

"I am writing in follow-up to my letter dated 31 August 2023  (A/78/335-S/2023/642), in which I transmitted the preliminary report  by the first Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the  Prevention of Genocide, Professor Juan Mendez, entitled "On the  situation in Nagorno-Karabakh and on the need for the international  community to adopt measures to prevent atrocity crimes".

"In culmination of its systematic policy aimed at the expulsion of  the Armenian people from their ancestral homeland, on 19 September  2023, Azerbaijan launched a military aggression resulting in the  forced displacement of the entire Armenian population from  Nagorno-Karabakh.

"Enclosed, I am providing the final report of Professor Mendez  entitled "Ethnic Armenians in Nagorno- Karabakh: report on prevention  of genocide", stressing that the international community - and  especially the Security Council - has the responsibility to act and  protect the rights of the people of Nagorno- Karabakh, and to adopt  appropriate measures, including by ensuring their right to dignified  return (see annex).

"I should be grateful if the present letter and its annex were  urgently brought to the attention of the members of the Security  Council and issued as a document of the Council. 

(Signed) Mher Margaryan Ambassador

Permanent Representative."