HRC 54rd Session. Item 3 - ID with Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development - Embassy of Armenia to Switzerland and Permanent Mission of Armenia to the UN office at Geneva

HRC 54rd Session. Item 3 - ID with Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development

20 September, 2023

Delivered by Ms. Lilit Toutkhalian, Minister Extraordinary and Envoy Plenipotentiary

Mr. President,

We thank the Special Rapporteur for presenting his report.

We all agree that it is not enough for human beings to merely have an entitlement to human rights. Rather, they should be able to exercise these rights, which requires that certain conditions exist for the enjoyment of the rights.

No such conditions exist in Nagorno-Karabakh where 120.000 people are currently facing an existential threat due to the unprovoked and unjustified aggression of Azerbaijan. These people have been subjected to a siege for more than nine months. For the last three months not even the limited humanitarian aid was reaching them. The electricity and gas supplies have been cut long ago and the farmers working in the agricultural fields are being targeted. Azerbaijan announced at the highest official level that those Armenians who want to leave their Fatherland can do so. Hence, we have been continuously warning on the looming ethnic cleansing.

Now, it is in progress. Peaceful towns and villages are indiscriminately targeted and shelled, there are multiple casualties among civilians, including children. Azerbaijani leadership is executing their atrocious plan in sheer defiance to numerous calls of the international community to comply with its international obligations.

Thank you.

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