Armenia, in the streets against the closure of the Minsk Group, the only institution in possession of an international mandate for the conflict with Azerbaijan

YEREVAN (Asianews) – Nagorno-Karabakh NGOs take to the streets against the closure of <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/conflict-in-the-nagorno-karabakh-region-tensions-between-armenia-and-azerbaijan/" title="Conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan“>Minsk Groupthe only institution with an international mandate for the conflict with Azerbaijan. A year after the military campaign in Baku, Armenian exiles are still living in precarious conditions in Yerevan or in camps and in areas close to the border, in the hope of returning to their homeland.

What is the Minsk Group. – It is a working structure created in 1992 by the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, since 1995 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, with the aim of encouraging a peaceful and negotiated solution after the first Nagorno Karabakh war

They don’t want to submit to Baku’s demands. Therefore, the representatives of the NGOs of Nagorno Karabakh reannexed to Azerbaijan organized a protest action at the building of the Foreign Ministry in Yerevan (the Armenian capital) asking the authorities not to submit to the demands of Baku (the capital of Azerbaijan ) to dissolve the Minsk Group dell’Oscethe Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Artur Grigoryan, one of the representatives of the associations, inspired by the movement “Tavowš in the name of the homeland” by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, announced that he had delivered an appeal to Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, signed by members of over 50 groups who had already presented a similar request to OSCE President Ian Borg at the end of September, the vice-premier of Malta. In the document the “people of Artsakh” (which is the Armenian name of Nagorno Karabakh) recalls the commitments of the Republic of Armenia in the defense of Nagorno Karabakh, in accordance with the norms of both national and international law.

The biblical exodus of over 115 thousand people. The Armenian people of the occupied region were forced into a biblical exodus of over 115 thousand people, going to their historic homeland, where they still largely live in precarious conditions, without ever giving up defending their rights, considering the annexation illegitimate of Artsakh to Azerbaijan. The Yerevan government has implemented a series of programs to assist refugee groups with the most urgent needs and their integration in Armenia, with a special section of the Ministry of Social Policies. Many refugees have found temporary accommodation in the capital and other cities, but a considerable number still live in camps and in areas near the border with Azerbaijan, in the hope of returning.

* Vladimir Rozanskij – Asianews