At least 64 people died during last month’s mass exodus of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population resulting from an Azerbaijani military offensive, an Armenian law-enforcement agency said on Monday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian indicated on Wednesday that his government does not regard refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh’s as Armenian citizens despite the fact that virtually all of them hold Armenian passports.
Samvel Shahramanian, the exiled president of Nagorno-Karabakh, appeared to backtrack on his decision to dissolve the unrecognized republic as he was confronted by angry Karabakh refugees in Yerevan on Friday.
The government formally decided on Thursday to allocate 30 billion drams ($75 million) for the housing needs of tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians who have taken refuge in Armenia since last month’s Azerbaijani military offensive.
An ethnic Armenian from Nagorno-Karabakh went on trial in Baku on Friday two and a half months after being arrested by Azerbaijani security forces during his aborted medical evacuation to Armenia.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian touted his government’s handling of the massive influx of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday even as at least 1,700 of them continued to live in kindergartens, schools and other buildings hastily converted into shelters.
Azerbaijani authorities reportedly arrested three former presidents of Nagorno-Karabakh and the current speaker of the local legislature on Tuesday as they continued their takeover of the depopulated region.
Tens of thousands more residents of Nagorno-Karabakh fled to Armenia on Wednesday in a continuing exodus of the region’s population triggered by last week’s Azerbaijani military offensive.
The United States and the European Union pledged on Tuesday to provide urgent humanitarian aid to ethnic Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh fleeing to Armenia in droves amid the ongoing restoration of Azerbaijani control over the region.
Thousands of ethnic Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh fled to Armenia overnight and on Monday one week after an Azerbaijani military offensive that will lead to the restoration of Baku’s full control over the region.
The Armenian government is making contingency plans for a mass exodus of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population to Armenia following the latest Azerbaijani offensive in the region, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Friday.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh accused the Azerbaijani army of opening fire at Stepanakert on Thursday shortly after Azerbaijani and Karabakh representatives began talks in line with a ceasefire agreement reached on Wednesday.
Heavy explosions were reported from Stepanakert and other parts of Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday as Azerbaijan announced a large-scale military operation against the Armenian-populated region.
A truckload of Russian humanitarian aid reached Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday in what Moscow described as a “first step” towards the restoration of relief supplies to the region blocked by Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan is massing troops along its border with Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh “line of contact” in possible preparation for fresh military action, Armenian officials said on Wednesday.
Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh have set up a tent camp on a road leading to the Azerbaijani town of Aghdam to prevent the delivery of Azerbaijan humanitarian aid which they say is aimed at legitimizing Baku’s blockade of the Lachin corridor.
The three residents of Nagorno-Karabakh arrested on Monday at the Azerbaijani checkpoint in the Lachin corridor will be set free after serving out a 10-day “administrative arrest,” according to Azerbaijani authorities.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have urged local farmers to sell wheat harvested by them amid a deepening shortage of bread resulting from Azerbaijan’s eight-month blockade of the Lachin corridor.
Azerbaijani security forces detained a resident of Nagorno-Karabakh after he crossed into the Lachin district for unclear reasons on Tuesday.
A daughter of a seriously ill Nagorno-Karabakh resident arrested by Azerbaijani authorities during his aborted evacuation to Armenia demanded his immediate release on Monday, saying that she fears for his life.
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