According to Azerbaijani information, almost two weeks after Azerbaijan’s major attack on Nagorno-Karabakh, a UN mission has arrived in the region mainly inhabited by Armenians. A spokesman for the Azerbaijani presidency told AFP that the UN mission arrived in Karabakh on Sunday morning mainly to assess humanitarian needs. However, almost the entire population has now fled from there.
The UN had earlier said it had received the green light from Baku to send a mission to the area this weekend. As a result of the Azerbaijani military operation a week and a half ago, “a mass exodus of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh is underway.” The people are in urgent need of humanitarian aid, it said.
Azerbaijan denies accusations of ethnic cleansing
Armenia had previously accused Azerbaijan of “ethnic cleansing”. Azerbaijan denies the accusations. “We cannot accept the accusation of ethnic cleansing or genocide,” presidential foreign policy adviser Hikmet Hajiyev said in an interview with AFP news agency on Saturday. There was “not a single case of violence or atrocities against civilians,” Hajiyev said. In any case, it is wrong to talk about “Armenian” citizens in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Meanwhile, Armenian groups from many European countries have called for a demonstration in Brussels against Baku’s actions on Sunday. Armenia itself declared a national day of prayer for Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday. Bells rang in the country’s churches and the ruling patriarch of the Armenian Church led a service in the country’s main cathedral in the city of Etchmiadzin, near the capital Yerevan.
Nagorno-Karabakh belongs to Azerbaijan under international law, but until now the majority of ethnic Armenians have lived there. The region declared independence in 1991 after a referendum. This was not internationally recognized and was boycotted by the Azerbaijani minority.
Source: Krone
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