Mirzoyan: Statements coming from our eastern neighbor continue to  question the territorial integrity of Armenia

ArmInfo. Most of the challenges that Armenia faced a year ago still remain unresolved despite the tremendous efforts being made. This was stated by the head of the Armenian MFA Ararat Mirzoyan in Geneva during his speech at the high-level segment of the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council. 

"Statements coming from our eastern neighbor continue to question the  territorial integrity of Armenia, despite the recognition of each  other's territorial integrity based on the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration,  which, among other things had  reconfirmed that the administrative  boundaries of the Armenian SSR and the Azerbaijan SSR had become   international borders of the independent republics. Moreover, the  mock trials against 23 Armenian individuals- who are arbitrarily  detained, are currently taking place in Azerbaijan with disregard of  human rights standards  for due process," he noted.

At the same time, he recalled that a year ago, the UN High  Commissioner for Human Rights informed the Council that the OHCHR  deployed two teams to Armenia to collect information about the  situation of more than 115,000 ethnic Armenians. Mirzoyan expressed  confidence that the results of the mission would be an important  contribution towards advancing the reconciliation efforts. 

Mirzoyan noted that the Republic of Armenia, remaining faithful to  its agenda on establishment of peace and stability in the region, has  made several constructive proposals to the Azerbaijani side,  including within the context of the Peace Agreement,  opening of  transport infrastructure, mutual arms control and verification  mechanism etc, taking into account the necessity to establish a  strategic deal regulating that will resolve all major issues. "We are  convinced that constructive response and further engagement and  demonstration of political will of both sides will largely contribute  to opening a new era of peace in our region. It is in this context  that I would like to once again reconfirm the willingness of the  Armenian side to turn the page of enmity and establish  institutionalized peace. We are not only ready for this, but we will  not deviate from this path," Mirzoyan concluded.