Collective for the self-determined Karabakh: United Nations must admit remedial secession of Karabakh
The Collective for the self-determined Karabakh, a group bringing together individuals and organizations of the Armenian Diaspora of France, has issued a statement urging the United Nations 'to admit remedial secession of Karabakh as the unique solution for the Armenians of Republic of Upper Karabakh." "In this April 24, 2016, we commemorate the victims of the Armenian genocide by the "Young Turks" government of 1915-1916. Turkey pursues an offensive denial policy to hide its responsibility in the organization of intentional mass crimes and deportations, although recognizing their reality. Yet the discourse and the method do not change. They continue their hate speech toward Armenians and support Azerbaijan in the Karabakh conflict. Prime Minister Davutoglu promised the Apocalypse for the Armenians. The intention of aggressive and criminal military assaults of Azerbaijan over the self-proclaimed Republic of Karabakh’s is of the same vein: to eradicate the Armenians from this region. Recent attacks killed nearly a hundred people from the Armenian side (from 2 to 5 April 2016) in the general indifference of the major Western powers, threatening regional peace and leading eventually to a conflict that may extend far beyond the borders of the Caucasus. This is why the "Collective for the self-determined Karabakh" challenges the permanent members of the UN Security Council to take up the matter and impose an embargo on arms sales to Azerbaijan. We denounce the arms sales by Russia, France, Israel, Ukraine, Belarus and Azerbaijan and call for demonstrations outside embassies of these countries and the Quai d'Orsay. For 22 years, Azerbaijan has developed an unparalleled official hate speech against Armenians that feeds the project to eliminate the other. Ordinary murderers of Armenians are themselves elevated as national heroes such as the officer Safarov who murdered with an ax an Armenian officer in his sleep in 2004, during a military training on a NATO base in Hungary. Opponents of Ilham Aliyev regime and human rights activists are all charged for one reason or another to serve the Armenians. Mutilations, beheadings and torture of Armenian military bodies returned by Azerbaijan in early April, illustrate this hateful and criminal intent. Moreover, Azerbaijan is the main sponsor of groups denialists of the Armenian genocide in the world; a tool of their hatred policy. Can one really imagine Karabakh be back under Azerbaijani administration in these conditions? Its existence as an ethnic group would be threatened. This is a sufficient condition that justifies the United Nations Security Council to take up the issue and transmit a request for advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on the secession of Karabakh from the Azerbaijan Republic. We call at the same time the government of the Republic of Armenia to act for national unity. This must be translated in concrete steps such as a return to democracy, release of political prisoners, the lifting of prohibition of entry into the country of Diaspora Armenians, repatriation of $ 10 billion which were illegally transferred to tax havens from 2004-2013 by oligarchs and some senior Armenian officials. This money belongs to Armenians and should be used to ensure the means of security of Armenia. Faced with the external threat, national unity is needed more than ever," the group said in the statement.
