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The Chairperson of the RA NA Standing Committee on Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs Taguhi Tovmasyan informed her international colleagues that movement of Azerbaijani armed forces and heavy military equipment on the borders of Armenia and Artsakh is observed along the whole contact line both in Armenia and Artsakh: It is even visible to the residents of the border settlements, and even it is visible

The Committee Chairperson ha s urgently addressed all her international colleagues, warning them about the most serious threats to relative stability in the region by Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan's territorial ambitions, which is expressed either by Aliyev's expansionist rhetoric, when he calls the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia as 'Western Azerbaijan” and Artsakh as “Azerbaijan , ” or already around 100 days of the blockade of Artsakh, with the most severe consequences of the humanitarian disaster, and with the heavy military equipment accumulated by the Azerbaijani armed forces along the whole line of contact of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Artsakh.

“ The lack of appropriate actions or ineffective condemnations by the international community serve the continuation of Azerbaijan's aggression and genocidal policy. It is a fact that Azerbaijan not only grossly violates a number of principles of international law, but also doesn’t implement the order of the International Court of Justice, namely to guarantee unimpeded movement of persons, vehicles and cargo along the Lachin Corridor in both directions, ” the MP noted.

Taguhi Tovmasyan requested the international partners to take effective and preventive steps to contribute to the prevention of the possible escalation planned by Azerbaijan, to prevent the implementation of a new genocide against Armenians.

The Committee Chairperson expressed hope that the EU observers stationed along the RA border and the Russian peacekeepers guarding the Artsakh borders will correctly assess the situation on the ground with punitive consequences.