Azerbaijan's Impunity Leads to New Genocide: Taguhi Tovmasyan

With the tacit approval of the civilized world, Azerbaijan has prohibited the transfer of 25 Armenian patients accompanied by the International Committee of the Red Cross, as well as dozens of individuals and humanitarian shipments escorted by Russian peacekeepers. This was stated by Taguhi Tovmasyan, the chair of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Human Rights Protection and Public Affairs.

“After the military provocation near the Hakari Bridge on June 15, Azerbaijan has blocked all types of humanitarian transfers, including people and cargo, in both directions at the illegally installed checkpoint. The Azerbaijani side did not permit the transfer of 25 patients and their escort from Artsakh to Armenia, who were forced to return to Stepanakert. Planned humanitarian transports of dozens of individuals in urgent need, as well as vehicles carrying humanitarian cargo along the Stepanakert-Goris highway, have also been canceled along with the Russian peacekeeping contingent,” she wrote.

Azerbaijan, with these actions, is once again grossly violating its international obligations to ensure safe and unhindered transportation through the Berdzor corridor, as stipulated in the trilateral statement of November 9, 2020, and is ignoring the decision released by the International Court of Justice on February 22, 2023. The civilized world must ultimately understand that the continued manifestation of Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing policy is undeniable evidence that the realization of the right to self-determination for the people of Artsakh has no alternative; the aggressor Azerbaijan must be punished as soon as possible, for as history shows, impunity leads to new genocide,” she stated.