The presence of Azerbaijani armed forces (flags and signs) on
the roads connecting the communities of the Syunik region of the Republic of
Armenia contradicts the foundations of the international human rights system, violates
the rule of law and, consequently, lacks any legal basis.
They have arrived and appeared in those places because:
1) Ethnic cleansing and genocidal policy towards Armenians was
carried out in Artsakh by terrorist with terrorizing methods and means.
2) They tortured and treated inhumanely both the civilians and
the military, and committed many other atrocities (beheadings of people alive,
desecration of bodies, etc.);
3) Jihadists and ISIS terrorists were used against Artsakh, who
in turn, committed war crimes and atrocities against Armenians.
4) The civilian settlements of Artsakh were subjected to
deliberate mass destruction, including with the use of banned cluster weapons.
5) From the outset, the war was accompanied and fueled by the
state policy of encouraging anti-Armenian hatred and incitement of hostility
towards Armenians on the basis of ethnicity (an institutional policy in place
for many years).
6) During the war, more than 100,000 Armenian civilians were
displaced from their permanent residences, and about 40,000 people were left
homeless as the direct consequence of the war.
7) The highest authorities of Azerbaijan and Turkey also speak
openly about Armenia and the entire Armenian people by n making use of language
of genocidal threats (for example, their utterances during the military event
in Baku on December 10, 2020).
8)The highest bodies of the Azerbaijani government. as well as
public figures there, go further by making statements insulting Armenians and
target the entire Armenian people. This, in order to humiliate, to strip
Armenians of their dignity, and so as to encourage same by publicly inciting
hatred.
9) The process of determining Armenia's borders is taking place
under the threat of war and use of force.
10) Due to the threat of war, the borders are determined by
mechanical methods and at impermissible speeds, without professional work, and
with gross violations of international rules.
11) The rights and legal interests of the border residents of
Armenia are ignored.
12) The process is accompanied by gross violations of property,
economic activity and other socio-economic rights of the border residents of
Armenia (people are deprived of their property and left homeless);
13) Serious endangerment of the lives and dignity of the border
residents of Syunik and Gegharkunik regions are taking place. Generally
speaking, the rights of the entire population of Armenia, their physical
safety, mental anguish and overall vitality are all affected;
14) There is no predictability for the residents of border areas
as to any action likely to next take place, which in turn has brought to them
an uncertainty as to what’s next, and whether there is a schedule of any kind
for anything coming up.
Therefore, the determination of borders with the described
approaches will not promote the peaceful coexistence of peoples in the region.
On the contrary, it will create fertile ground for incessant hatred and enmity
towards Armenians in Azerbaijan, continuous gross human rights violations, and
other dangerous manifestations.
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