There are no Armenians left in Nagorno-Karabakh due to ethnic cleansing carried out by Baku, but it is still possible to preserve the small number remaining in the region and release those kidnapped and illegally held in Azerbaijani prisons. This was stated by the representative of Armenia on international legal issues Yeghishe Kirakosyan at a meeting of the International Court of Justice. The speaker recalled that the Armenians, after many months of Azerbaijani blockade and large-scale aggression, were forced to leave the land of their ancestors.

The vice-speaker of the Armenian parliament during discussions in PACE, Ruben Rubinyan, in turn, recalled that Azerbaijani deputies call forcibly displaced people citizens of Azerbaijan, but did not express condolences to them in connection with the losses and did not ask what they need. “The war unleashed by Baku, ethnic cleansing, the demand for an extraterritorial corridor from Armenia, the non-recognition of its borders indicate that Azerbaijan is a threat to international order and law. The International Court of Justice can make the deportation of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh reversible,” Rubinyan said.