Permanent Representative of Armenia to UN: Aliyev formally admitted that Azerbaijan had initiated the Nagorno-Karabakh war
Permanent Representative of Armenia to the UN Mher Margaryan has addressed a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General, regarding Azerbaijan’s persistent, gross and systematic violations of the Charter of the United Nations and the norms and principles of international law. The Armenian diplomat focused on the lates televised interview Ilham Aliyev aired on 14 August 2021.1
"During said interview, the President of Azerbaijan, among other incendiary remarks and overt espousal of state-led ideology of warmongering, genocidal violence and anti-Armenian hatred, openly stated that Azerbaijan started a “War of Salvation”, referring to the 44-day war from September to November 2020, thus formally admitting that Azerbaijan initiated a war in an attempt to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by force, contrary to its pre-eminent obligations under international law, which prohibits the use of force to resolve disputes, and in flagrant violation of the Secretary-General’s appeal for an immediate global ceasefire launched during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic," wrote Margaryan.
In his words, the interview demonstrates, once and for all, that, despite Azerbaijan’s repeated attempts to push for deceptive narratives blaming Armenia for initiating a military attack and to hide its criminal actions behind Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, in fact, it was Azerbaijan that started the war on 27 September 2020 with the aim of achieving its long-standing objective to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by force and not through diplomatic settlement.
"In what has become the most intense and destructive crisis in the region since the 1990s, in grave violation of the ceasefire agreements of 1994 and 1995 and international humanitarian law, Azerbaijan’s massive military aggression came to be accompanied with the deliberate targeting of the civilian population, including women, children, journalists, humanitarian and medical workers, and the destruction of critical civilian infrastructure, all amidst an unprecedented global healthcare crisis," the letter said in part.
The letter circulated in the UN is avaiable here.
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