{"id":33553,"date":"2021-01-17T02:19:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T00:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norkhosq.net\/?p=33553"},"modified":"2021-01-17T02:19:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T00:19:25","slug":"armenian-ambassador-to-un-azerbaijans-actions-set-dangerous-precedent-to-the-detriment-of-international-peace-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/?p=33553","title":{"rendered":"Armenian ambassador to UN: Azerbaijan\u2019s actions set dangerous precedent to the detriment of international peace and security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Permanent Representative of Armenia to the UN Mher Margaryan addressed a letter <\/a>to UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres regarding Azerbaijan\u2019s persistent, gross and systematic violations of the Charter of the United Nations and the norms and principles of international law in the context of the maintenance of international peace and security.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cAzerbaijan has repeatedly demonstrated a blatant disregard towards its pre-eminent obligation to strictly adhere to the principles of non-use of force or threat of force and the pacific settlement of disputes by opting, instead, for instigation of violence, conflict and atrocity crimes in relation to the people of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh),\u201d the ambassador said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He stressed that the authorities of Azerbaijan consistently promoted the language of threats, fueling ethnic hatred and propagating war and violence against Armenians. In doing so, the leadership of Azerbaijan \u201csought to push for a deceptive, victim-blaming narrative on the basis of misplaced, manipulative invocation of the concept of \u201cself-defense\u201d as a purported justification for military action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVideos of public executions, mutilations, inhuman treatment of prisoners of war and civilian hostages and other atrocities have been widespread in online media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDespite overt, unconcealed glorification of violence, sponsoring of international terrorism and genocidal ideology, both Azerbaijan and Turkey have been increasingly seeking to manipulate the right to \u201cself-defense\u201d to cover up Azerbaijan\u2019s criminal conduct. Much to the embarrassment of those behind this fabricated argument, it must be clearly stated, however, that, in the case of Azerbaijan, neither the conditions of \u201cself-defense\u201d nor of \u201cpre-emptive self-defense\u201d are applicable,\u201d Margaryan stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He called attention to Azerbaijan\u2019s widespread acts of atrocity crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn addition to the direct explicit evidence of genocidal intent, as communicated by Azerbaijan\u2019s and Turkey\u2019s leaders themselves, Azerbaijan\u2019s goal of ethnically cleansing the indigenous Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh may be inferred from Azerbaijan\u2019s commission of the following atrocity crimes: (1) inhuman treatment, torture, executions and beheadings of captive Armenian civilians; (2) torture, beheadings and mutilations of prisoners of war; (3) widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure; (4) destruction of cultural and religious heritage; and (5) hate speech by the Azerbaijani political leadership and public figures encouraging identity-based crimes against Armenians,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The top diplomat highlighted that throughout its 27 September to 9 November 2020 offensive against Artsakh Azerbaijan deliberately targeted civilian sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAzerbaijan has, indeed, waived any self-defence argument by its capture and torture of ethnic Armenian civilians, including humanitarian aid workers, before and after the 10 November 2020 ceasefire. The relevant reports by the Human Rights Defenders of Armenia and Artsakh contain abundant evidence documenting the barbaric atrocities committed by the Azerbaijani armed forces against captured ethnic Armenian civilians, detailing the torture, mutilation and killing of captured Armenian civilians, including after the 10 November 2020 ceasefire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMoreover, Azerbaijan\u2019s atrocious treatment of Armenian prisoners of war \u2013 including mutilation, torture and beheadings \u2013 belies any \u201cself-defense\u201d argument. These are not acts of self-defense but acts of genocidal intent. As reported by several international sources and as documented in the Ombudsman\u2019s reports, Azerbaijan committed multiple acts prohibited under the Third Geneva Convention, such as executions of Armenian soldiers by gunfire, decapitation of Armenian prisoners of war, deliberate execution of injured, non-resistant wounded soldiers, brutal execution of an alive, captured person, mutilation of the bodies of dead Armenian soldiers 10 and other inhumane acts and atrocities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe genocidal intent does not stop at the bodies of ethnic Armenian civilians and prisoners of war; it also seeks to destroy Armenian cultural heritage, while erasing any evidence of the more than 2,000-year-old Armenian civilizational presence. Notable examples of such cultural erasure involved the shelling of the Tigranakert archaeological site, the best-preserved city of the Hellenistic and Armenian civilizations of the Caucasus, as well as the targeted destruction of the Armenian cathedrals in Shushi, including the removal of the Armenian cross and rounded, pointed dome from the \u201cKanach Zham\u201d (\u201cGreen Chapel\u201d) Armenian Church of Saint John the Baptist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDespite Azerbaijan\u2019s unsubstantiated claims that the ancient Christian cultural heritage in the region is not Armenian but rather exclusively \u201cCaucasian Albanian\u201d, such claims have not stopped Azerbaijan from destroying cultural heritage that it labels as \u201cCaucasian Albanian\u201d, as confirmed by Azerbaijan\u2019s devastating campaign against the largest medieval Armenian cemetery in the world \u2013 the historical khachkars (cross-stones) in Old Jugha in Nakhichevan, destroyed by the Azerbaijani Government between 1997 and 2006. Notably, Azerbaijan not only denies such conduct \u2013 which was captured on video \u2013 but also denies the existence of this Armenian cultural heritage at all, in line with Azerbaijan\u2019s genocidal indoctrination directed against ethnic Armenians and Armenian culture and history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSadly, such dangerous indoctrination is cultivated at the highest political level in Azerbaijan and Turkey, as reflected in the extensive use of inflammatory, derogatory language in relation to Armenians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe past weeks have clearly indicated that bellicosity, warmongering and anti-Armenian sentiments have taken firm hold of the public discourse in Azerbaijan and Turkey, and that these represent serious risks of atrocity crimes. On 22 October 2020, a group of 80 prominent Genocide scholars published a joint letter on the imminent genocidal threat deriving from Turkey and Azerbaijan against Nagorno-Karabakh, in which they point out the continuous policy of denial and justification of the Armenian Genocide.16 It is clear that Azerbaijan\u2019s violent conduct, encouraged and supported by its enabling State, Turkey, has been aimed not at defense but at intentional infliction of maximum casualties on the Armenian side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt their core, the belligerent actions of Azerbaijan that began on 27 September 2020 violated international law as Azerbaijan\u2019s conduct resulted in the resumption of hostilities, civilian casualties and widespread destruction. Plied with Turkey\u2019s illicit caches of military command and counsel, hardware and technological munitions, and universally outlawed foreign terrorist fighters and mercenaries, Azerbaijan\u2019s actions also led to the intensification of the conflict undermining peace and security in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAzerbaijan, therefore, demonstrated not only that it was not acting in \u201cself-defense\u201d under international law, but also that it had no intention of complying with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, international humanitarian law and human rights law, or any of the Security Council resolutions that it has so often invoked for manipulative purposes. This was further evidenced by Azerbaijan\u2019s failure to adhere to the 10 October, 17 October and 25 October agreements on humanitarian ceasefire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe fact that Azerbaijan chose to attack in the midst of a global health pandemic exemplifies Azerbaijan\u2019s unwillingness to engage in peaceful resolutions and eagerness to resort to force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot only are Azerbaijan\u2019s actions incompatible with the core values and objectives of the United Nations, but they also set a dangerous precedent to the detriment of international peace and security and must be unequivocally acknowledged for what they are \u2013 an attempt to solve an international dispute by force, contrary to the obligations under international law, including customary law,\u201d the letter reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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