PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenians are facing a humanitarian crisis in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a meeting with the heads of foreign diplomatic missions and international organizations accredited in Armenia on Monday, October 12.
"The hostilities and their nature once again have demonstrated that the Armenian people, the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh are facing an existential threat, and the policy of shelling towns and villages in Nagorno-Karabakh comes from the hate policy which has been promoted in Azerbaijan in the past 15 years," Pashinyan said.
"It becomes obvious that Azerbaijan’s official political objective is to annihilate the Armenians, at least in Nagorno-Karabakh. Essentially, in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, we are very close to a humanitarian crisis or perhaps we are already facing a humanitarian crisis. Our assessment is that this humanitarian crisis can be prevented in only one effective way: if the international community officially acknowledges the aforementioned facts and eventually recognizes the right of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh to self-determination, to the point of even recognizing the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh."
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