Norway to provide additional NOK 50 million to assist refugees from  Artsakh

ArmInfo. Norway will provide an additional NOK 50 million to assist refugees from Artsakh. State  Secretary to the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affair Eivind Vad Petersson informed on his account on X.

"Thank you Paruyr Hovhannisyan (Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia,  ed. note) for a productive meeting. Supporting Armenia and the  refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh, both in the short and long term, is  crucial. Norway is pleased to announce a new contribution of NOK 50  million through the offices of UNHCR and UNDP in Armenia for the  refugee response," the diplomat wrote.

On September 19, 2023, 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, and more than 200 deaths were reported,  including civilians. On September 20, Artsakh fell. Azerbaijan began  the forcible subjugation of the NKR. On September 22, the process of  abolishing the Artsakh Defense Army began. During search operations  from September 21 to 24, the NKR Ministry of Internal Affairs found  the bodies of 105 Artsakh residents, including brutally murdered  children and elderly people. Today Artsakh is completely  de-Armenized; its entire indigenous population, over 100 thousand  people, were forced to flee to Armenia under the threat of physical  violence.

On September 25, a strong explosion occurred at a fuel depot near  Stepanakert. At the time of the explosion, there were a large number  of people on site who were queuing for gasoline to leave Artsakh amid  the latest Azerbaijani aggression. According to the Investigative  Committee of Armenia, an explosion at a fuel warehouse killed 218  people, 215 of them were identified. At least 120 people received  injuries of varying severity, mainly in the form of burns. At the  moment, according to the investigation, the whereabouts of 21 people  are unknown.

After the Azerbaijani aggression, a number of countries sent  humanitarian and financial assistance to Artsakh refugees.

Since the enemy aggression that began in the fall of 2020, which  ended in September of this year with the complete ethnic cleansing of  Artsakh, over 150 thousand Artsakh residents have become homeless.