BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 2. Armenia has also violated its obligations arising from international humanitarian law, refusing to provide information about the fate of the persons who went missing in the First Karabakh War and the exact location of mass graves. Armenia must apologize for all these crimes it has committed, said President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in his address to the participants of an International Baku Forum of Ombudsmen on Climate Change and Human Rights, TurkicWorld reports.
"As you may know, for nearly 30 years, Armenia kept Azerbaijan’s lands under occupation, flouting international law, resolutions of the UN Security Council and other international organizations, and carried out ethnic cleansing there, turning more than a million of our compatriots into refugees and internally displaced persons.
Although the conflict is over now, unfortunately, the serious consequences of Armenia's 30-year military aggression are still there, posing a huge threat to people's lives and the environment. Armenia has committed ecocide, urbicide, and culturicide in our occupied territories, polluting and poisoning our lands and rivers, destroying our forests, razing our cities and villages to the ground, as well as planting countless mines that threaten people's right to live here and cause serious damage to the environment. At the same time, our people’s cultural heritage of global importance has been destroyed and our religious and cultural monuments have been wiped out the face of the earth," said President Ilham Aliyev.
