The signing of a peace agreement with Azerbaijan should put an end to the Karabakh-Azerbaijani conflict. This is the conviction of David Babayan Foreign Minister of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). The diplomat notes that such an agreement has always been the ultimate goal.
David Babayan (Artsakh’s Foreign Minister) - It is another issue that Azerbaijan itself has a different idea. In fact, it wants us to leave Artsakh. This is its goal, and it does not hide. Therefore, we must work to implement this peace treaty, but not from the point of view of Azerbaijan. And I think that Azerbaijan will still torpedo this message from Armenia.
Babayan reaffirms that Artsakh will never be part of Azerbaijan. The Minister describes the encroachments of the Azerbaijani armed forces on the civilian population of Artsakh as terrorism, and the attempts to eliminate the Armenian religious and cultural heritage or present it as Albanian-Udi as a cultural genocide.
David Babayan - The cultural genocide is carried out in different ways, one is barbarism, our cultural monuments are simply destroyed, and the second is an attempt to deprive those cultural monuments of Armenians.
Answering journalists' questions, Babayan also referred to his working visit to Belgium on February 7-10. During the meetings with the representatives of the Friendship Group with Artsakh and other structures in the European Parliament, Artsakh’s Foreign Minister stressed that the Azerbaijani-Turkish aggression is a threat not only to the Armenians, but also to the whole civilized world.
David Babayan - We have raised various humanitarian issues, the problems of captives, hostages, the implementation of cultural genocide by Azerbaijan.
The answer of the Artsakh Foreign Minister to the question of setting up an investigative commission to study the circumstances of the 44-day war at the Armenian Parliament is that he is ready to support the work.
