{"id":2415,"date":"2023-10-23T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsakhforum.net\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2024-03-29T14:27:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T10:27:07","slug":"yerevan-slams-un-mission-to-karabakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsakhforum.net\/?p=2415","title":{"rendered":"Yerevan Slams UN Mission To Karabakh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Armenian officials on Tuesday accused a United Nations mission of covering up \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d in Nagorno-Karabakh after visiting the region on Sunday in the wake of Azerbaijan\u2019s military offensive.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 3, 2023 \u2013 The mission led by the head of the UN office in Baku traveled to Karabakh after its practically entire ethnic Armenian population fled to Armenia, unwilling to live under Azerbaijani rule. In a statement on the one-day trip, it said it was \u201cstruck\u201d by the exodus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe mission did not come across any reports \u2014 neither from the local population interviewed nor from the interlocutors \u2014 of incidences of violence against civilians following the latest ceasefire,\u201d read the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did not clarify whether the UN officials conducted those interviews in the presence of Azerbaijani officials. Authorities in Karabakh say dozens of local civilians were killed and scores of others went missing during the Azerbaijani offensive launched on September 19. Their mostly small communities were heavily shelled by Azerbaijani forces, according to the authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UN mission said it \u201csaw no damage to civilian public infrastructure\u201d in Stepanakert. It noted that it did not get access to rural areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe so-called UN mission in Nagorno-Karabakh did their best to legitimize the ethnic cleansing, arbitrary detentions, destruction of civilian infrastructure and other crimes committed by Azerbaijan,\u201d charged Edmon Marukian, an Armenian ambassador-at-large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese guys are discrediting the UN as an institution,\u201d he wrote on the X social media platform, calling for a UN investigation into their trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vladimir Vartanian, a senior Armenian lawmaker, also criticized the mission. He said he will try to find out whether UN officials in New York trust its findings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By contrast, the mission was praised by Baku, with a senior aide to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev posting excerpts from its statement page on his X page. An Azerbaijani analyst, Shahin Jafarli, said Aliyev\u2019s administration will use the statement to deny Armenian accusations of ethnic cleansing and other war crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 100,000 Karabakh Armenians fled to Armenia in the course of last week, leaving their homeland almost fully depopulated. Marco Succi, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) office in Stepanakert, suggested on Tuesday that only a few hundred people remain behind in the Karabakh capital, including the sick, disabled and elderly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe city is now completely deserted,\u201d Reuters quoted Succi as telling reporters via video link from the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said his ICRC team is now combing Stepanakert\u2019s empty streets with megaphones seeking stranded residents, They found Susanna, an elderly, bed-ridden cancer patient who was beginning to show signs of Anemia and malnutrition despite provisions left by her neighbors. She was evacuated by ambulance to Armenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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