19 October 2020, 20:14
Activists request UN to respond to civilian deaths in Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan
Today, in the US, the UN will hold the consultations on the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. Members of the Azerbaijani and Turkish communities gathered in front of the UN headquarters in New York. They requested the UN to respond to shelling attacks on the Azerbaijani city of Ganja. At a similar rally in Yerevan, protesters have invited UN officers to personally register shelling attacks on villages, towns, and cities in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The UN Security Council meeting was initiated by Russia, France, and the United States, the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group.
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Women from Nagorno-Karabakh together with their children came to the UN office in Yerevan. They invited employees of the international organization to arrive to the conflict zone and register what was happening in villages, towns, and cities. "We are ready to provide all the facts proving the inhuman actions of the Azerbaijani armed forces and terrorists involved in the hostilities," stated Siranush Sargsyan, an organizer of the action.
Meanwhile, in front of the UN headquarters in New York, members of the Azerbaijani and Turkish communities in the United States held an action condemning shelling attacks with ballistic missiles on Ganja, the second largest city of Azerbaijan, the "Anadolu" reports. The protestors called on the world community to take measures to stop shelling attacks on Azerbaijani villages, towns, and cities from Armenia.
Ercan Yerdelenli, the president of the Azerbaijan New York Association, expressed his gratitude to Turkey for the moral support of Azerbaijan after the escalation of the conflict.
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on October 19, 2020 at 12:18 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
