Breaking
US, EU Adopt Joint Statement Calling for Peace in the South Caucasus Following US-EU Summit
Call for Non-Use of Force and Threat of Use of Force which Azerbaijan has Repeatedly Ignored
“Azerbaijani authorities have repeatedly said that everyone’s rights will be protected in Nagorno-Karabakh, yet such assurances are difficult to accept at face value after decades of conflict, impunity for alleged crimes, including against civilians during hostilities, the Azerbaijani government’s overall deteriorating human rights record, and the recent Azerbaijan-imposed, nine-month de facto blockade of the region, which left the Armenian population without enough food, medicine, and fuel.”
-Human Rights Watch
World Leaders, NGOs Condemn Azerbaijan’s Ethnic Cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh
Council of Europe Issues Statement on Armenia and Azerbaijan
Calls on Azerbaijan to Ensure Karabakh Armenians’ Right to Live in Their Homes in Dignity
Urges Azerbaijan to Comply with the Interim Measures Indicated by the ECHR on 22 September
Germany MP: Azerbaijan Has Lost Trust of International Community
Condemns Azerbaijani Use of Military Force Against Nagorno- Karabakh
Calls for Sanctions Against Azerbaijan
The German MP called his current visit “a message of support to Armenia” and a warning to thedictatorial regime of Azerbaijan that a military threat will not be tolerated in Europe.
Spanish Senate Adopts Statement Condemning Azerbaijan
Expresses Strongest Condemnation of the Unjustifiable
Military Operations Carried out by Azerbaijan
Expresses rejection of the failure by Azerbaijan to comply with the obligations under the ceasefire and the binding orders of ICJ
Underlines Azerbaijan’s Responsibility to Guarantee the Rights and Security of Nagorno-Karabakh
Urges Azerbaijan to Allow the Entry of International Observers
Spanish Senators have adopted a declaration condemning Azerbaijan’s actions in Nagorno- Karabakh.
Dutch Parliament Calls for Military Support to Armenia
Asks the Government to Call on EU-member States to Respond Positively to Armenian Request for Military Support
The Dutch parliament adopted two motions by a large majority: regarding military support to Armenia and on ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh.
ALDE Notes the Ethnic Cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh
Calls For Deploying a UN Peacekeeping Mission in Nagorno-Karabakh
Calls For Targeted Sanctions on Azerbaijani Officials Responsible for Multiple Ceasefire and Human Rights Violations and War Crimes in Nagorno- Karabakh
Calls For Diversification of Oil and Gas Supply to Decrease Western Dependency on Azerbaijan
Driven by Fear from Nagorno-Karabakh
ICRC Searching for Signs of Life in Nagorno-Karabakh After Forced Deportations by Azerbaijan
A small number of people remain in their homes, either by choice or because they were unable to leave by themselves. Some require medical help or food and water. Others are requesting assistance in contacting loved ones or securing transport to leave.
HRW: Nearly All of the Region’s 120,000 Ethnic Armenians Fled
One Family’s Flight to Armenia
‘Whatever warm clothing our family was able to pack were in the
tractor grandpa was riding. We were shivering all night from the cold
because the car was moving half a meter per hour. An old man died in a truck close to us. He was too sick, too frail..The cold, the hunger, the thirst, we were half-dead ourselves by the time we arrived at the border.’
Photos of the week
An ethnic Armenian refugee sleeping inside the truck in the village of Zorak, Armenia. There are no longer any vacant houses in the village. Families are forced to shelter together.
Photo Courtesy of Ani Gevorgyan
Keys hang from a tapestry at a school in Aralez, Armenia, representing the keys of homes left behind by the survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. This school is now welcoming in children from Nagorno-Karabakh who have been forced to flee their homes in 2023.
Photo Courtesy of Scout Tufankjian
UNICEF: 1 in 3 Children Forcibly Displaced from Nagorno- Karabakh Still Do Not Have Access to Education
Security
France Sends Weapons to Armenia Amid Fears of More Azerbaijani
Azerbaijan Already Occupies 150 square Kilometers of Armenia
There are fears in Armenia that Azerbaijan could push across the
internationally recognized border yet again and seize the southern
region of Syunik, which Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has previously said should host a “corridor” connecting his country to its exclave of Nakhchivan, which is split from the rest of Azerbaijan by Armenian territory.
Azerbaijan Could Invade Armenia. The U.S. Must Intervene
Despite celebrating Armenia as a democracy, the U.S. has been cautious to reprimand its petro-aggressor. Even after last month’s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Biden administration has merely extended the non-renewal of a statutory sanction on Azerbaijan, rather than imposing targeted financial sanctions. The coming weeks may prove to be the next test.
What Unites Russia, Turkey, Iran And Azerbaijanis In Hatred Of Armenia?
By Michael Rubin
The deeper answer, however, is historical. Where Armenians go, democracy follows..The White House and various think tanks may
propose peace talks or various schemes to bring peace to the South
Caucasus, but none of these will succeed so long as the tension between Armenia’s democracy and its neighbors’ autocracies continues. Rather than seeking concessions from a democracy, then, perhaps a smarter strategy would be to encourage the spread of freedom to Armenia’s neighbors. Only then can there be a true, natural, and sustainable peace between Armenia and its neighbors.
Matthew Miller: Iran and Russia are Unreliable Partners
“So with respect to the Armenia-Azerbaijan question of it, we welcome any good-faith engagements that contribute to peace and stability for the people of the South Caucasus regardless of where those talks happen or who is hosting them. But that being said, we recognize the South Caucasus’ delicate geographic position regarding Iran and Russia, but we have not found these countries to be reliable partners, to understate matters,” Miller said
Azerbaijan’s Victory Over Armenian Enclave Raises Fears of Another War
By Polina Ivanova
For decades, Aliyev united the country around the trauma of losing the 1990s war, and built his personal legitimacy around the battle to retake Karabakh. His military triumph has bolstered his popularity and leaves few Azerbaijanis concerned about a crackdown on activists that, in its latest iteration, saw six people jailed for supporting peace. Armenians watching anxiously for signs of what Aliyev might do next have previously been alarmed when he referred to southern Armenia as “western Azerbaijan” and set up a society dedicated to the rights of Azerbaijanis whose origins can be traced back to that region.
Opinion
Understanding the Armenia-Iran Relationship
By Michael Rubin
The Armenia-bashing of some analysts is deeply dishonest and comes at a substantial moral cost for the United States. Armenia is a country of genocide survivors. It is the first and only remaining Christian nation in the Middle East. Today, Russia, Turkey, and Iran jointly hold it hostage. It is an American interest to free Armenia from their grip rather than sacrifice it and other pro-Western democracies for the illusion of Azerbaijan and Turkish support. It is time to base American policy on reality, not endless Twitter repetition of the big lie.
Azerbaijan’s Shift To Hamas Shows Its Cynicism
By Michael Rubin
Azerbaijan’s tilt toward Hamas in the current crisis comes after Hamas
congratulated Azerbaijan on its victory in Nagorno-Karabakh, an action that led to the mass exodus of the region’s millennia-old indigenous Christian community..As Azerbaijan shifts closer to Hamas, the major questions Israel should ask is whether the weaponry they provided Baku for use against Armenians may end up being turned against Israel itself, perhaps via Palestinian groups, in the service of the Azerbaijani regime’s new emphasis on Islamic solidarity.
Armenian Lives Must Be Acknowledged and Protected — Not Forgotten Again
By Salpi H. Ghazarian
This is the greatest Armenian catastrophe since the genocide of
Ottoman Armenians in 1915, and it has already vanished from international headlines. It’s been eclipsed by another catastrophe that is bearing out the same inescapable truth on the backs of innocent Israelis and Palestinians: that an unresolved political conflict — or one resolved unjustly — only breeds more injustice.
We don’t lack for lessons or slogans: “Never Again” sounds good. But even as we keep saying it again and again, we allow preventable injustice to happen, again and again.
Armenian Christianity Preserves the Eastern Memory of the Church
By Delphine Allaire and Christopher Wells
Armenia was the first kingdom to adopt Christianity as its state religion. Its two-thousand-year-old religious, spiritual and architectural heritage bears witness to the importance of keeping the Christian presence alive and rooted in the Caucasus.
