Turkey and Azerbaijan Have Not Removed the Armenian Genocide Agenda from Their Political Agenda: Artsakh Foreign Ministry

The National Assembly of the Republic of Artsakh has issued a statement in connection with the 106th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The statement is presented below:

“On April 24, Armenians around the world and people of good will will commemorate the memory of our 1.5 million holy martyrs. Turkey's criminal policy aimed at eradicating the Armenian people from their historical homeland constituted the first genocide of the 20th century. All of this took place under the silent and indifferent gaze of the world. Millions of our people were annihilated and displaced. This crime, rooted in state-organized xenophobia, has no statute of limitations. The impunity of the perpetrator drives him to commit new crimes. By adopting this truth as a modus operandi, more than a century later, the leadership of Turkey continues to pursue the Armenian people.

Today, Azerbaijan, the ideological offspring of Turkey, has embraced the policy of genocide denial and justification. In Baku, Sumgait, Ganja, Getashen, and Maragha, women, the elderly, and children were killed, and thousands were displaced simply for being Armenian. The 2020 Artsakh War, the thousands of innocent victims, the loss of a significant part of the homeland, and the intolerance towards Armenian national and Christian monuments in the post-war period repeatedly remind us that Turkey and Azerbaijan have not removed the Armenian genocide agenda from their political agenda.

In commemorating our sanctified martyrs, in order to preserve the dignity of the Armenian people and the paramount value of statehood, we must collectively approach the existing internal and external challenges with utmost responsibility. We must continue to live and create on our ancestral land. This will be the best trump card on the path to the universal recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide.”