Nagorno-Karabakh has never been part of independent Azerbaijan, thus two independent and legally equal subjects were formed at the moment of dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Armenia’s Ambassador to Italy, Victoria Bagdassarian, told the aforementioned to Agenparl news agency of Italy. 

“Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh are fighting for their existence and right to live freely on their homeland,” she added. “[But] in the modern Azerbaijan, killing an Armenian is a glory and it is being encouraged and promoted on the highest possible official level. It was the case when the Azeri officer Ramil Safarov axed the sleeping Armenian colleague Gurgen Margaryan during the NATO courses in Budapest.

“This was also the case during the 4-day April war unleashed by Azerbaijan [in 2016]. The Azeri offence was  initiated in the early morning. It started with heavy shelling of civilian settlements and villages, schools and kindergartens.

“Those who committed these war crimes and crimes against humanity later were promoted and awarded by [Azerbaijan President Ilham] Aliyev personally. There is no single doubt that Azerbaijan has completely exhausted the confidence of the people of Nagorno Karabakh. It is clear that here will be no ‘back to the future,’ as it is an absolute nonsense to present the root causes of the conflict as a resolution to it.”

As for the ambassador of Azerbaijan’s statement that there are four UN Security Council (SC) resolutions on the Karabakh conflict, Bagdassarian stressed that the Azerbaijani diplomat “fails to recall that those resolutions were adopted in a specific situation and with a specific purpose to stop the violence.”

“It is important to underline that none of the UN SC Resolutions refers to Armenia as a party to the conflict,” added the Armenian ambassador to Italy. “Armenia is only called upon ‘to continue to exert its influence’ over Nagorno-Karabakh and the latter is apparently recognized as a party to the conflict; something that Azerbaijan continuously tries to ignore.

“Azerbaijan has also rejected the requirement of the Security Council resolutions on restoration of economic, transport, and energy ties in the region. Moreover, the resolutions of the UN Security Council urged to refrain from any action that would obstruct a peaceful solution to the conflict and to exert efforts to settle the conflict within the [OSCE] Minsk Group framework. And what has Azerbaijan done? Absolutely the opposite: it launched a new large-scale military attack after every resolution.”