Impunity gives green light to new atrocities - Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister on Aliyev's statement

YEREVAN, August 4. /ARKA/. Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Vahan Kostanyan commented on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's statement on the mission of his political life.

"The Azerbaijani President's statement that 'winning the war is the mission of his life, his political life...' clearly demonstrates how impunity gives a green light to new atrocities. The international community must take immediate measures to prevent ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh," Kostanyan said in a tweet.

For about eight months now, 120,000 Armenians in Artsakh ( Nagorno-Karabakh) have been under complete blockade of Azerbaijan with no food, medicine, fuel, gas or electricity.

The Lachin corridor, the only road connecting Artsakh with Armenia and the rest of the world was initially blocked by Azerbaijani government-sponsored fake “eco-activists” on December 12, 2022.

Azerbaijan officially institutionalised the blockage of the road by an illegal checkpoint installation on April 23, 2023, grossly violating its international obligations.

Azerbaijan continues to demonstrate a willful disregard for the provisions of the Trilateral Statement of November 9, 2020, the ECHR ruling of December 21, 2023, as well as ICJ orders issued on February 22 and July 6, 2023, calling on Azerbaijan to urgently “take all measures at its disposal to ensure unimpeded movement of persons, vehicles and cargo along the Lachin Corridor in both directions.” -0-