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In the Senate, intellectuals denounce Europe's indifference to Nagorno-Karabakh

2021-11-24T09:54:03.016Z


REPORT - Several speakers took turns before the President of the Armenian National Assembly to defend "this little handkerchief of rock lost in the midst of empires".


How to remain indifferent to this suffering?

"

A large part of the Artsakh refugees remain homeless, the Azeris control water points and 1,500 Armenian historical sites

", denounces Hovhannès Guevorkian, representative of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the Senate on Tuesday 23 November.

Faced with this ethnic cleansing, the only final settlement is the independence of Artsakh (Armenian name for Nagorno-Karabakh),

” he adjures with contained anger mixed with pride.

On November 25, 2020, the Senate unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh from the government.

A year later, the upper house of Parliament wants to take stock and provide perspectives on the "

Armenian question

".

In attendance are parliamentarians, intellectuals, Gérard Larcher, the Ambassador of Armenia and the President of the Armenian National Assembly, Alain Simonian.

Read alsoWhat would change if France recognized the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic?

"

Humanity cannot live forever with the corpse of a murdered people in its cellar

",

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Source: lefigaro

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