Based on the data of the Armenian government, 88,780 internally displaced persons arrived in Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh as of September 29, 10 o’clock. According to Armenian media, there is a traffic jam of several kilometers on the road from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia. A total of 120 thousand people lived in Karabagh.
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Ethnic Armenians have been fleeing the region after Azerbaijan declared the restoration of sovereignty as a result of the military operation carried out on September 19-20.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan responded to the statements made by the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, at the government meeting on September 28, that the Armenian population living in the Karabakh region was subjected to ‘’ethnic cleansing.’’
‘’Such alarmist statements, in addition to contradicting the Armenian Prime Minister' own statement of September 21, in which he said that there is no threat to Armenian residents from Azerbaijan, also undermine Azerbaijan's efforts in the direction of humanitarian support and reintegration, and the prospect of establishment lasting peace between our two countries.
The leadership of Armenia ignores the fact that the central government institutions of Azerbaijan immediately started implementing the necessary humanitarian aid measures and meeting the urgent needs of the Armenian population living in the Karabakh region.
Prime Minister Pashinyan is well aware that the departure of the Armenian residents of Azerbaijan's Karabakh region is their personal decision and has nothing to do with forced displacement. If some part of the Armenian population does not want to live within the framework of Azerbaijan's legislation and authority and submit to it, we cannot force them to do so.
We call on the Armenian population not to leave their place of residence and become a part of the multi-ethnic Azerbaijani society,’’ the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan reads.
The Reuters agency, citing a ‘’senior diplomat,’’ reports that the government of Azerbaijan has a list of about 200 people living in Nagorno-Karabakh whom it wants to arrest on charges of various crimes.
On September 27, Azerbaijani law enforcement officers arrested Ruben Vardanyan, former state minister of the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, a billionaire, and the founder of the humanitarian initiative "Aurora", as he was attempting to flee Nagorno-Karabakh via the Lachin corridor connecting to Armenia. Vardanyan was transferred to Baku and charged with three serious offenses - financing terrorism, creating an illegal armed group and participating in its activities, and illegally crossing the state border of Azerbaijan.
Advisor to the de facto president of Karabakh, former foreign minister Davit Babayan stated that he is included in the blacklist of Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani side requested his arrival in Baku for investigation, which he agreed to.
A total of 170 bodies and body parts were found in the area of the explosion in the fuel depot located on the Stepanakert-Askerani highway in Nagorno-Karabakh on September 25. 290 people were injured.
On September 28, the president of the unrecognized republic, Samvel Shahramanyan, signed an order by which all ‘’state institutions and organizations’’ will be dissolved by January 1, 2024, and the ‘’Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh’’ (Artsakh) will cease to exist. According to the second paragraph of the order, the population of Karabakh, including those who are currently outside its borders, should familiarize themselves with the terms of reintegration presented by Azerbaijan and decide independently and individually whether to stay in Karabakh.
