More than 6,500 Armenians have already left Nagorno-Karabakh since Azerbaijan regained control of the disputed region last week.
Yerevan accuses Baku of ethnic cleansing. The convoys of cars at the Armenian border do not stop. Yerevan announced that it will accommodate 40 thousand refugees. According to an adviser from Nagorno-Karabakh, all 120,000 Armenians may leave the region because of the fear of the new Azeri government.
“I will never go back there. The Azeris did not allow us to take away even our dead relatives,” said Ashot, an Armenian from Nagorno-Karabakh.
A second meeting was held in Nagorno-Karabakh between representatives of Baku and local Armenians on the future of the region. It is not clear if there is any result.
The President of Azerbaijan promised to guarantee the security of all communities. Ilham Aliyev welcomed his Turkish counterpart Erdogan, who supported him for his military operation, writes bTV.
“With the recent victory, new opportunities for normalization in the region have opened up. We expect Armenia to accept the outstretched hand for peace,” commented Turkish President Recep Erdogan.
Under pressure from protests and accusations that he betrayed his ethnic brothers, the Armenian prime minister met with an American delegation and declared that ethnic cleansing was underway in Nagorno-Karabakh.
2023-09-25 19:57:11
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