Azerbaijani lawmaker Gudrat Hasanguliyev has confessed about Azerbaijan’s state policy aimed at the ethnic cleansing of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), Armenian Human Rights Defender Kristine Grigoryan said in a statement posted on social media on Friday.
In particular, he stated that “Armenia should put an end to its territorial ambitions towards Azerbaijan and stop supporting the bloody separatism of Karabakh. Until this is not done, we should not recognize their (the population of Nagorno-Karabakh) right to life in peace”. The deputy added that under the current situation, it is not possible for Armenians to live in Azerbaijan.
Another Azeri deputy, Fazil Mustafaev, echoing his colleague, also has directly threatened the physical existence of the Artsakh people, the ombudsperson said.
“In reality, the examples and proves of the Azerbaijani policy of ethnic hatred and ethnic cleansing of Armenians are numerous, however, it is striking that the high-level officials representing the Azerbaijani leadership are making these announcements in the context of the provocations carried out by their armed forces in recent days, as a result of which two Armenian servicemen were killed and 19 others were injured,” Grigoryan stressed.
“It is a fact the right to life of the peaceful population of Nagorno-Karabakh is not guaranteed, and the Azerbaijani official is directly confirming that.
“I have shared this information with my international interlocutors as well as with the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which in the coming days will review Azerbaijan's periodic report on the implementation of the UN International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,” reads the statement.