“France must act to stop the ethnic cleansing of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh and punish the Azerbaijani”

Our voices are raised to save the 120,000 Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), including 30,000 children. Under blockade since December 12, 2022, the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh is literally asphyxiated in deafening silence and embarrassing indifference. This forum is a call for strong action on the part of France and the international community.

The Senate and then the National Assembly voted almost unanimously for resolutions condemning Azerbaijan, calling for sanctions against its leaders and asking for the recognition of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, convinced that this is the key to peace. sustainability in the South Caucasus. These votes have so far had no effect.

France, because it is morally, historically and culturally committed alongside Armenia, must act to stop the ongoing ethnic cleansing and firmly sanction the Azerbaijani. This primarily involves humanitarian action as promised by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron.

Nagorno-Karabakh has become an open-air prison

It has been a hundred days since the Lachin corridor, the only access route linking Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, has been closed on the pretext that so-called Azerbaijani environmental activists are carrying out an action on the spot, while investigations have proven that the Azeri special forces are on the ground.

Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh are undergoing a quiet war waged by revisionist states, which, beyond this region, are contesting the very borders of Armenia, now referred to as “Western Azerbaijan”, which constitutes historical nonsense and a violation of the sovereignty of the Republic of Armenia and international law.

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Nagorno-Karabakh has become an open-air prison, where, on a daily basis, the inhabitants lack everything: food, food and the most basic hygiene products. Azerbaijan randomly cuts gas, electricity, Internet networks, plunging into the isolation of the freezing winter the inhabitants of this mountainous region, where it can be down to -10 degrees.

Indifference of the international community

The children are no longer in school, the schools having had to close for lack of heating and means of operation. The children in the hospital in Stepanakert have run out of medicine and can no longer be treated. Only a few were rushed to Yerevan by the Red Cross. Two hundred newborns have been born, but what will be their future, in a region devastated by the war of 2020 and, perhaps, by a new conflict which is sneakily preparing?

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