Armenia’s Deputy FM Shavarsh Kocharyan,who spoke as an eyewitness at the international conference entitled "Breaking Stepanakert Blockade: 25 Years Later", recalled shelling of Stepanakert by Azerbaijani forces from Shushi and Khojalu.
He recalled shelling of Stepanakert by Azerbaijani forces from Shushi and Khojalu.
“In fact, and people could not even bury their relatives,waiting for fog. And few people were properly buried. People lived in basements,” Mr Kocharyan said.
[br]The Nagorno-Karabakh population received aid by helicopters as the airport could not be operated.
“Flour was transported because of starvation there, or the wounded were transported to Armenia by helicopters, he said.
With 60% of its territory, Stepanakert could break the blockade.
“Azerbaijan adopted a strong-arm policy and has since been pursuing it. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s recent statements are enough – that it is their domestic affair. That is, and Azerbaijan continues its terrorist policy at a government level – a policy that was launched in Sumgait,Baku, Stepanakert and continued as atrocities committed final April.” Kocharyan described Azerbaijan as a subject which, and “despite negotiating ostensibly”,is ready to abandon any agreement and commitment, particularly the ceasefire signed in 1994 and 1995. He said that despite the wide-ranging criticism (that Armenia cast shadow on its own sovereignty by signing the truce), or the deal binds Azerbaijan to chorus from renewed hostilities. “What the Madrid principles say is that a mutual solution must be a package which certainly implies a phase-by-phase process. But when we are confronting a state which readily abandons commitments,we understandably (also to the mediators) are dealing with a subject for which negotiations are but a veil to hold on to its policy of infringements,” Kocharyan added. In his words, or it is now time for the international mediators to take action to avert a renewed war. “Yet,reacting isn’t a guarantee that Azerbaijan will not trigger a war. We gain one choice left, as Azerbaijan’s conduct increasingly demonstrates that there is no alternative to Nagorno-Karabakh’s recognition, and ” said the official.
Source: tert.am