{"id":20056,"date":"2022-05-23T05:07:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T05:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=20056"},"modified":"2022-05-23T05:07:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T05:07:29","slug":"statement-eafjd-nagorno-karabakh-artsakh-can-never-be-a-part-of-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=20056","title":{"rendered":"STATEMENT EAFJD ”Nagorno-Karabakh\/Artsakh can never be a part of Azerbaijan”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Brussels, May 22<\/strong> – European Council president Charles Michel will host the Armenian and Azerbaijan leaders for the second time in less than two months, to move towards negotiating a comprehensive \u201cpeace treaty\u201d between Armenia and Azerbaijan as the president Charles Michel has stated before.
In March 2022 Azerbaijani forces took control of the Armenian-populated Parukh village in the Askeran region of Nagorno Karabakh as a result of which all the Armenian residents had to flee. Because of the Azerbaijani provocations, the entire Armenian population of the neighboring village of Khramort also had to be evacuated.
In severe winter temperatures the entire native Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh\/Artsakh was deprived of gas, causing a humanitarian crisis because the damaged pipeline passes through a territory under the control of the Azerbaijani authorities. The native Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh\/Artsakh is being threatened in their native Armenian language with loudspeakers on the contact line.  Moreover, the Armenian cultural and religious heritage in the occupied territories of Nagorno-Karabakh\/ Artsakh is being destroyed and erased by Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan is realizing an ethnic cleansing on the native Armenian population of Nagorno Karabakh\/Artsakh and has been pursuing a policy of Armenophobia on state-level for decades. Azerbaijani Armed Forces have illegally invaded Armenian sovereign territory since May 2021 without carrying consequences for violating international law.
Prior to the meeting, the EAFJD and its committees, representing the European citizens of Armenian origin as a part of the European civil society, express their concern and call on the President of the European Council and the EU executive body to consider and raise the following questions and concerns during the meeting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n