Artsakh foreign ministry calls Azerbaijani president’s statement that resumption of hostilities does not mean rejection of the negotiation process cynicism
09.10.2020,
14:59
The latest statements by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev that the resumption of hostilities does not mean the rejection of the negotiation process and that official Baku continues to consider the residents of Artsakh as its citizens are a manifestation of the highest degree of cynicism, the Artsakh foreign ministry said.
YEREVAN, October 9. /ARKA/. The latest statements by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev that the resumption of hostilities does not mean the rejection of the negotiation process and that official Baku continues to consider the residents of Artsakh as its citizens are a manifestation of the highest degree of cynicism, the Artsakh foreign ministry said.
“Such statements demonstrate that the military-political leadership of Azerbaijan lives in its own fictional world, divorced from reality. Without realizing the illegality and illusory nature of their claims against Artsakh, the Azerbaijani authorities will not be able to break the vicious circle into which they drove themselves with their anti-Armenian propaganda, attempts to rewrite the history of the region and manipulative interpretation of the international law,” the ministry says in its statement.
The Artsakh foreign ministry also says that, firstly, the citizens of Artsakh have been living in an independent, sovereign state since 1991 and have no political and legal ties with Azerbaijan.
“Baku has long lost also the moral right to call the people of Artsakh its citizens. And after the armed aggression of Azerbaijan against the Republic of Artsakh unleashed on September 27, 2020, during which the Azerbaijani army purposefully fired at civilian objects and used prohibited types of weapons, including cluster munitions, against the civilian population, such statements by Baku are completely meaningless empty words,” the foreign ministry says in the statement.
Secondly, as noted in the foreign ministry’s statement, having unleashed another aggressive war and again trying to resolve the conflict by force, Azerbaijan canceled all the efforts of international mediators, nullifying their achievements in the process of a peaceful settlement.
"Under the current circumstances, there is only one way out - the international recognition of the independence of the Republic of Artsakh, which will ensure lasting peace and stability in the region, as well as exclude Azerbaijan's attempts to launch another war and prevent the Baku authorities from committing new crimes against humanity," the ministry concluded.
War in Artsakh
On September 27, at 07:10, Azerbaijani troops launched an offensive along the entire length of the contact line in Artsakh, but were thrown back in several directions. Intense fighting continues in the south, southeast and north of the front line. Turkey joined the aggression. Residential areas are being shelled as well.
The Azerbaijani side suffered losses in manpower (more than 4,069 people killed and over 5,000 wounded) and equipment, in particular, 145 UAVs, 4 units of TOS – 1A, 4 Smerch and Uragan MLRS, more than 496 tanks and other armored vehicles, 18 helicopters and 17 aircraft. According to the data of the defense ministry of Armenia and Artsakh, more than 320 Armenian servicemen were killed and hundreds wounded on the Armenian side. Also 21 civilians were killed and 90 wounded on the Armenian side.
Armenia informed the international community, including the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, about the aggression by Azerbaijan against Artsakh, also about the shelling of peaceful settlements.
Martial law and general mobilization were declared in Artsakh and Armenia. -0---
“Such statements demonstrate that the military-political leadership of Azerbaijan lives in its own fictional world, divorced from reality. Without realizing the illegality and illusory nature of their claims against Artsakh, the Azerbaijani authorities will not be able to break the vicious circle into which they drove themselves with their anti-Armenian propaganda, attempts to rewrite the history of the region and manipulative interpretation of the international law,” the ministry says in its statement.
The Artsakh foreign ministry also says that, firstly, the citizens of Artsakh have been living in an independent, sovereign state since 1991 and have no political and legal ties with Azerbaijan.
“Baku has long lost also the moral right to call the people of Artsakh its citizens. And after the armed aggression of Azerbaijan against the Republic of Artsakh unleashed on September 27, 2020, during which the Azerbaijani army purposefully fired at civilian objects and used prohibited types of weapons, including cluster munitions, against the civilian population, such statements by Baku are completely meaningless empty words,” the foreign ministry says in the statement.
Secondly, as noted in the foreign ministry’s statement, having unleashed another aggressive war and again trying to resolve the conflict by force, Azerbaijan canceled all the efforts of international mediators, nullifying their achievements in the process of a peaceful settlement.
"Under the current circumstances, there is only one way out - the international recognition of the independence of the Republic of Artsakh, which will ensure lasting peace and stability in the region, as well as exclude Azerbaijan's attempts to launch another war and prevent the Baku authorities from committing new crimes against humanity," the ministry concluded.
War in Artsakh
On September 27, at 07:10, Azerbaijani troops launched an offensive along the entire length of the contact line in Artsakh, but were thrown back in several directions. Intense fighting continues in the south, southeast and north of the front line. Turkey joined the aggression. Residential areas are being shelled as well.
The Azerbaijani side suffered losses in manpower (more than 4,069 people killed and over 5,000 wounded) and equipment, in particular, 145 UAVs, 4 units of TOS – 1A, 4 Smerch and Uragan MLRS, more than 496 tanks and other armored vehicles, 18 helicopters and 17 aircraft. According to the data of the defense ministry of Armenia and Artsakh, more than 320 Armenian servicemen were killed and hundreds wounded on the Armenian side. Also 21 civilians were killed and 90 wounded on the Armenian side.
Armenia informed the international community, including the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, about the aggression by Azerbaijan against Artsakh, also about the shelling of peaceful settlements.
Martial law and general mobilization were declared in Artsakh and Armenia. -0---
