A participant of a protest action with a banner. Yerevan, March 24, 2022. Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"

25 March 2022, 13:51

Yerevan townspeople urge UN to pay attention to humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh

The participants of the action held at the United Nations (UN) office in Yerevan have declared their support for Nagorno-Karabakh in connection with the gas supply outage. International organizations should not turn a blind eye to the humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh; and Armenian authorities should express their principled position on this issue, Nina Karapetyants, a human rights defender, has stated.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on March 23, the Nagorno-Karabakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) accused Azerbaijan of "humanitarian terrorism" in connection with termination of gas supply.

In its turn, the Azeri MFA has treated the gas supply as an "internal matter" and urged the Armenian MFA not to put forward unjustified accusations.

The Yerevan protesters have supported the Karabakh residents who came out to a similar rally in Stepanakert.

Armine Mangasaryan has pointed out that after the 2020 war, Karabakh residents "find themselves in a critical situation, when their elementary living conditions depend on Azerbaijan."

Ashot Tsatryan, a Caucasus scholar, has noted that the international community should use all its levers of influence to affect the situation in Karabakh.

Nina Karapetyants, the head of the Helsinki Association of Armenia, has condemned the actions of Armenian authorities, who fail to officially react to violations of the rights of Karabakh residents. According to her story, Armenia has no right to distance itself from Karabakh problems, as residents of the unrecognized republic "are defending the common homeland and their identity."

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on March 24, 2022 at 09:29 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Author: Armine Martirosyan Source: CK correspondent

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