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Naira Badalian

Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians ask UN to protect cultural heritage by  pressuring Baku 

Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians ask UN to protect cultural heritage by  pressuring Baku 

ArmInfo.An attempt is being made to remove the issue of returning Artsakh people to their homes from the  agenda. This opinion is shared by the citizens of Artsakh - participants in the civil initiative. Having gathered at the UN building in Yerevan, they ask the international structure to guarantee the protection of public and private property of the spiritual and cultural heritage in Artsakh from Azerbaijani occupation attacks by putting pressure on Baku and in compliance with the decisions of the International Criminal Court of December 7, 2021  and November 17, 2023.

"If we left our homes because there was an existential threat to us  due to the genocidal policies (of Baku), this does not mean that we  are ready to give up our homes, our history and our cultural  heritage," one said in an interview with journalists of the protest  participants Armina Avakimyan. When returning to Artsakh, they  believe, international protection measures should be applied,  including through the deployment of peacekeeping forces.

According to the participants of the action, more than 6 thousand  objects of the historical and cultural heritage of Artsakh are today  under threat of destruction. Baku has been implementing a similar  policy for a long time, but today, after carrying out ethnic  cleansing, they are also erasing the trace of Armenians in Artsakh,  they say.

The exodus of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh (Republic of Artsakh)  began on September 24, 2023.  This was preceded by a months-long  blockade of Artsakh by Azerbaijan (since December 12, 2022), which  caused an acute humanitarian crisis in the region, and hostilities  started by Azerbaijan on September 19, 2023. On September 20, the NKR  authorities agreed to the disarmament of the NKR Defense Army and to  negotiations. On September 28, NKR President Samvel Shahramanyan  signed a decree on the termination of the existence of the Republic  of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) from January 1, 2024 and on the  dissolution of all state institutions. The population of  Nagorno-Karabakh, including those outside the republic, after the  entry into force of this Decree, was ordered to familiarize itself  with the conditions of reintegration presented by the Republic of  Azerbaijan, in order to make an independent and individual decision  in the future on the possibility of staying (returning) to  Nagorno-Karabakh.  

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