Statement of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the NA of the Republic of Artsakh on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the mass massacre of the Armenian population in Baku.

“On January 13-19, 1990, a mass massacre organized by the state authorities was carried out against the Armenian population in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Hundreds of Armenians became victims of ethnic violence, and Armenian property was looted and confiscated. Under the immediate threat of physical annihilation, a quarter of a million displaced Armenians of Baku settled in different countries of the world as refugees.

In order to restore historical justice and to silence the voice of the Armenians of Artsakh, who rose up to realize their right to self-determination, the Baku authorities, with the permission of the Gorbachev regime, carried out a planned genocide against the Armenians of Azerbaijan. Contrary to the facts recorded by international human rights organizations, the authorities of Azerbaijan are still covering up their genocidal actions, falsifying the facts and avoiding responsibility.

Respecting the memory of the innocent Armenians who fell victim to the massacre and forced deportation of Baku, the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the National Assembly.

condemns any manifestation of xenophobia, extremism and terrorism,

claims that organized violence against the Armenians of Baku, the entire Eastern Transcaucasia, as well as the Armenians of Northern Artsakh and Nakhichevan fully corresponds to the UN’s 1948 to the legal formulation of the crime of genocide defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,

calls on the international community, human rights organizations and parliamentary structures to give a legal assessment to the mass massacres of the Armenian population in Baku and to take steps against the ongoing anti-Armenian propaganda at the state level in Azerbaijan,

reaffirms that the pogroms organized in Baku have no historical precedent, and the Republic of Artsakh will be consistent in bringing the organizers and perpetrators of the Azerbaijani-Armenian genocide to justice.”