Karabakh refugees in Armenia face uncertainty and poverty in exile
Masis, Armenia Reuters For the third time in her life, Elada Sargsyan is a refugee. Born in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, Sargsyan fled her hometown in 1988, aged 19, as the Soviet Union began to fall apart. Elada Sargsyan, 54, a refugee from Nagorno-Karbakh region, poses for a picture in a disused kindergarten, where she […]
Iran to host Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process talks amid Middle East tensions
Dubai, United Arab Emirates/Moscow, RussiaReuters Foreign ministers from Iran, Turkey and Russia will meet their counterparts from Azerbaijan and Armenia in Tehran on Monday and discuss progress towards a peace agreement between the two South Caucasus neighbours, Iranian and Russian state media said. The first meeting of foreign ministers of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan after […]
Aliyev raises Azerbaijan’s flag in former breakaway region of Karabakh
Moscow, RussiaReuters Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Sunday raised the national flag in the capital of the former breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh after a lightning military operation last month brought the territory back under Azerbaijan’s control. “President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has raised the national flag of the Republic of Azerbaijan in […]
Azerbaijan’s President says France will be to blame if new conflict starts with Armenia
Moscow, RussiaReuters Azerbaijan’s President scolded the European Union and warned that France’s decision to send military aid to Armenia could trigger a new conflict in the South Caucasus after a lightening Azerbaijani military operation last month. Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev last week pulled out of an EU-brokered meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at […]
ICRC combs streets of “deserted” Karabakh capital for stranded residents
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Only a few hundred people remain behind in the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, including the sick, disabled and elderly, an International Committee of the Red Cross official said on Tuesday, describing the empty streets as “surreal”. Azerbaijani forces took control of the enclave on its territory populated by ethnic Armenians, triggering an exodus of […]
“The stars aligned”: In taking Karabakh, Azerbaijan’s President avenged his father
ANDREW OSBORN, of Reuters, reports on the recent background to events in Nagorno-Karabakh…
UN mission arrives in Nagorno-Karabakh as ethnic Armenian exodus nears end
Reuters A United Nations mission arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, Azerbaijani media reported, as a mass exodus of ethnic Armenians from the region began drawing to a close following a Azerbaijani military offensive last month. The mission, led by a senior UN aid official, is the global body’s first access to the region in about […]
More than 100,000 refugees arrive in Armenia as exodus swells
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters More than 100,000 refugees have arrived in Armenia since Azerbaijan’s military operation to retake control of Nagorno-Karabakh, the United nations said, while thousands more endured long hours of delay in a huge traffic jam at the border. “Many are hungry, exhausted and need immediate assistance,” Filippo Grandi, head of the UN refugee agency […]
UN mission to visit Karabakh after military offensive
Baku, Azerbaijan Reuters Azerbaijan has invited a United Nations mission to visit Nagorno-Karabakh “in the coming days”, the foreign ministry said on Friday, amid a mass exodus of ethnic Armenians from the region following a lightning Azerbaijani military offensive. UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric confirmed that a UN mission, led by a senior UN aid official, […]
Karabakh Armenians dissolve breakaway government in capitulation to Azerbaijan
Goris, Armenia Reuters Ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh said on Thursday they were dissolving the breakaway statelet they had defended for three decades, where more than half the population has fled since Azerbaijan launched a lightning offensive last week. In a statement, they said their self-declared Republic of Artsakh would “cease to exist” by 1st January, […]