ODIHR/OSCE prevents Azerbaijani provocation

ArmInfo.  The chairman of the non-governmental organization "Union for the Protection of the Rights of Refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh" (UPRR NK) Andranik Grigoryan is currently participating in the second conference "Human Dimension 2025" organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Vienna, which is also dedicated to the challenges facing human rights defenders.

As reported by the press service of the Union, Grigoryan presents the  agenda issues on the restoration of the violated rights of Armenians  forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020-2023.

It is also reported that the representative of Azerbaijan tried to  prevent Grigoryan from speaking, where he raised the issue of  protecting the rights of Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh and the crimes  committed by Azerbaijan. "However, representatives of the OSCE Office  for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights gave Grigoryan an  additional floor, thereby demonstrating the unacceptability of  Azerbaijan's policy of denial," the Union said in a statement.

On September 19, 2023, Azerbaijan, under the pretext of an  "anti-terrorist operation", committed another act of aggression  against Artsakh. As a result of the enemy aggression, hundreds of  Artsakh residents were injured, and more than 200 deaths were  reported at the time, including civilians. On September 20, Artsakh  fell. Azerbaijan began the violent subjugation of the NKR. In  addition, late in the evening of September 20, it became known that  Azerbaijan had deliberately fired at two vehicles of the Russian  peacekeeping contingent, killing 6 people, including the deputy  commander of the RMK. 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 discovered the bodies  of 105 Artsakh residents, including brutally murdered children and  the elderly. Today, Artsakh is completely de-Armenianized, its entire  indigenous population of over 100 thousand people was forced to flee  to Armenia under the threat of physical violence.  Since the enemy  aggression that began in the fall of 2020, which in September 2023  ended with the complete ethnic cleansing of Artsakh, over 150  thousand Artsakh residents have become homeless.