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YEREVAN, APRIL 21, ARMENPRESS. One of the priority issues of Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Armenia is the strengthening of such an approach withing international community thatNagorno Karabakh people can becommitted to genocide in case of yielding territories, “Armenpress” reports, in an interview with journalists the Director of the Institute of History of NAS Ashot Melkonyan expressed such an opinion. “If Azerbaijan will strengthen its positions in liberated territories of Artsakh, the next step will be the attack against the Nagorno Karabakh, meaning against the Armenian populated areas.The Armenian side firstly should explain Russia and also the international community that such step can lead to genocidal consequences”, said Ashot Melkonyan.
Melkonyan gave an importance to the fact that in recent decades the world community for the first time started to speak from the European high platforms about the threat against Artsakh people at an MP level, and emphasized that the world community sees the recognition of NKR as a way to avoid from that threat. “The recent hostilities unleashed by Azerbaijan in cooperation with the “Islamic State” terrorist group recall that a genocide can be committed against the Artsakh people, and after 100 years what happened in 1916 can be repeated with Armenian people. It is important to hear the speeches by European MPs who say that the only way of saving Artsakh people from genocide is the recognition of Nagorno Karabakh Republic. I think that the first task of Armenian Foreign Ministry should be the continuation of this approach in the world community”, historian added.
Within this context Ashot Melkonyan highly appreciated the recognition of NKR by several US states noting that the states are, of course, not the subjects of international law, however, they can can have a strong impact in delivering a message to the public.
Editor-in chief o fLebanon “Azdak” newspaper Shahan Gantaharyan agreed with Ashot Mekonyan and stated that the Armenian Foreign Ministry and the Armenian National Committee should speak publicly about Azerbaijan as a military criminal and as a terrorist state unit. According to him, we should not forget about Turkey which is the major terrorist “production unit” and a threat to the whole world for supporting and serving as a corridor to dangerous terrorist groups.