For Azerbaijan, the return of former internally displaced persons to their native lands and the settlement of Karabakh, which is perceived as the Azerbaijani “Alsace-Lorraine,” are a primary strategic task
Day: November 7, 2023
Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo will will grant honorary citizenship to representatives of Artsakh Armenians on December 10.
“A tragedy continues to unfold in Armenia. Azerbaijan is guilty of arbitrarily detaining former Artsakh officials and destroying Armenian heritage in this territory,” the Mayor said said in a post on X.
She discussed the issue with Luis Moreno Ocampo, former prosecutor at the International Criminal Court and author of a report on the genocidal process that was implemented by Azerbaijan during the blockade of the Lachin corridor.
“Our thoughts are with the victims, their families, the 100,000 refugees and political prisoners detained by Azerbaijan. I will present the honorary citizenship of Paris to the representatives of the Armenians of Artsakh on December 10, on the occasion of International Human Rights Day,” Hidalgo said.
“Paris also calls for the immediate release of all Armenian prisoners held by Azerbaijan,” she stated.
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The European Union has a role to play in helping end violence in the world, Luis Moreno Ocampo, former Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), said at a press conference today.
“We need a lot from the European Union, the EU was created with an idea to end violence in Europe, but we need something else. Not just ending violence in Europe, but also helping end violence in the world,” Ocampo said.
“2023 is a year of genocide. We say ‘never again,’ but in 2023 there is a genocide in Darfur, that has been ongoing for the latest 20 years, there is a genocide in Ethiopia, there was a genocide in Nagorno Karabakh, there is a genocide coming against Armenia, there is a genocide being committed by HAMAS against Israelis in Israel, and there is a genocide being committed by Israelis against Palestinians, by blockading two million people,” he noted.
“This is the world today and we are going in the wrong direction, in particular because today Europe is also buying weapons preparing for a permanent war. So, we are investing billions in war and nothing in peace. I think that should be transforming, and the European Parliament has a role to play,” he said.
Ocampo noted that what happened in Nagorno Karabakh, the blockade of the Lachin corridor was a form of genocide. “Under the Genocide Convention, one form of genocide is creation of conditions to destroy a group,” he said.
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