in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/geragos-1-1-2021/ Attorney Mark Geragos (California) multiple times publicly expressed his views for the rights of Armenians in Artsakh and against the crimes committed by Azerbaijan. Below is his new initiative and few tweets after recent war started against Artsakh.
in Armenian — https://aga-tribunal.info/tatoyan-28-12-2020-hy/ in Russain — https://aga-tribunal.info/tatoyan-28-12-2020/ On December 28, 2020, documentary protocols on war crimes committed by the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan were signed by Human Rights Defender Arman Tatoyan and transferred to the Prosecutor’s and the Police Offices in Armenia, as bodies of general jurisdiction. Below is the translation into Russian of the article of the Ombudsman from his official website by AGA-Trobunal.info.
in Armenian – https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/luxembourg-24-12-2020-hy/ in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/luxembourg-24-12-2020/ On December 19, 2020 the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies unanimously adopted a motion on Azerbaijan-Turkey-jihadist aggression against the Artsakh. Source: official web site of the parliament (in French)
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/crimes-22-12-2020/ Source: Embassy of Armenia to Switzerland-Permanent Mission to UN Office in Geneva, Dec 22, 2020 and also MFA of Armenia Independent international sources have circulated numerous reports on the war crimes perpetrated by Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh. Below is a compilation of some highlights for the ease of reference.
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/unesco-21-12-2020/ Source: web site of UNESCO, December 11, 2020 The document was accepted at the 15th Meeting of the Committee. See another note from Dec 21, 2020 underneath a text of the Declaration. Declaration of the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict of the Second Protocol to The Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict – ensuring cultural property protection in and around Nagorno-Karabakh and setting-up an independent technical mission
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/refugees-21-12-2020/ in Armenian – https://aga-tribunal.info/hy/refugees-21-12-2020-hy/ On December 21, 2020, the Congress of Armenian Refugees from the Azerbaijan SSR published its statement in Armenian. Below is an unofficial translation into English by the editorial board of AGA-Tribunal.info.
in Armenian – in Russian – Source: Panorama.am, December 11, 2020 A petition on the preservation of the cultural heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) signed by around 150 scientists from around the world has been submitted to the Vatican Secretariat of State of the Holy See.
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/mfa-15-12-2020/ Foreign minister of Armenia Ara Ayvazian participated on December 15, 2020 at the online 4th Ministerial Meeting of the Ancient Civilizations Forum. Armenpress cited him: “It is critical today to promote a culture of peace to face the escalating aggression and violence that we have been witnessing around the world. The culture of peace can only be founded on strong international cooperation and the Ancient Civilizations Forum is an important platform in this regard as it brings together countries with thousand-year-old ancestral cultures and vast tangible and intangible heritage”.
Source: AGBU, December 22, 2020 Given its century-old history of advocating for the human rights and dignity of the Armenian people, the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) has long recognized the importance of supporting all victims of ethnic cleansing, genocide and other crimes against humanity around the world. That is why it continues to observe December 9th—the United Nations International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and the Prevention of this Crime–with inclusive discussions of an international scope, each year focusing on a different theme related to this vast, multi-dimensional subject.
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/testimonies-1-12-2020/ Taking into account the experience of other similar structures in the world, in 2020, the International Public Crimes Tribunal of Azerbaijan (IPTCA) began to form. The initiators were co-organizers of two international conferences dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the massacres in Baku and Shushi. At the second conference, the relevant information was presented. The special web site contains over 600 publications in 3 languages. In 2020, several critical appeals were sent to the UN and the EU.
Source: web sites of World Council of Churches and Armenian Church, Eastern Diocese in US, November 23, 2020. In a letter to the Director-General of UNESCO, the Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC) has made an urgent appeal for the protection of Armenian religious and cultural monuments Artsakh.
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/kazimirov-12-11-2020/ On November 12, 2020 V. Kazimirov published an article in the popular Russian information agency REGNUM. Vladimir Kazimirov – is a former ambassador, head of the Russian mediation mission in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in 1992-1996, honored worker of the Russian diplomatic service. V. Kazimirov’s website – http://vn.kazimirov.ru/mir.htm Below is a non-official translation from Russian by AGA-Tribunal.info.
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/shakaryants-26-11-2020/ On November 26, 2020, independent analyst Sergey Shakaryants (Yerevan) published a critical article on the website of the “Yerkramas” news agency. We give it below as is in non-official translation from Russian by AGA-Tribunal.info. On November 25, 2020, the press secretary of the President of Russia, the well known Dmitry Peskov, during a conversation with journalists, answering the question whether the peacekeeping mission in Artsakh is really expanding, taking into account the fact that doctors and specialists are sent there, among other things, to resolve issues heat supply, and with what it is connected, answered rather […]
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/unesco-18-11-2020/ Source: web site of UNESCO, November 18, 2020 On 18 November, the Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, received the representatives of Armenia and Azerbaijan to the Organization.
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/metro-17-11-2020/ Source: The Art Newspaper, November 17, 2020 The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York issued a plea today for the preservation of cultural heritage sites in the Nagorno-Karabakh region as Azerbaijan moves to take control of swaths of territory under a Russian-brokered peace deal for the enclave.
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/afaja-1/ in Armenian – here in French – here in Spanish – here in Portugese – here By the end of October 2020, the French Association of Armenian lawyers and jurists AFAJA initiated a petition in six languages addressed to the UN Security Council. During the month as on November 25, it was signed by 28,140 people. Web address of the petition in English – here.
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/france-23-11-2020/ Open Appeal to the Deputies of the French Senate The Organizing Сommittee of the International Public Tribunal for Crimes of Azerbaijan (IPTCA) thanks the senators of France, Bruno Retailleau, Patrick Kanner, Hervé Marseille, Eliane Assassi and Guillaume Gontard for the draft Resolution on the recognition of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and hopes for its adoption by the French Senate http://www.senat.fr/leg/ppr20-145.html
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/a-manasyan-5/ Alexandr Manasyan November 22, 2020 How the state named Azerbaijan emerged in Transcaucasia in 1918 Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) in the chaos of the collapse of the Russian Empire (1918-1920) Consequences of Turkish intervention in Transcaucasia The annexation of Nagorno-Karabakh by the Bolsheviks in favor of the AzSSR Fragmentation of the NK territory after its inclusion in the AzSSR Stalin’s project of building the Azerbaijani nation and its mutation Genocide of Armenians in AzSSR Legitimacy of the NKR proclamation Artsakh as a victim of the decision of the Council of Europe of December 16, 1991
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/unesco-20-11-2020/ Source: ICA.com, November 20, 2020 ICOMOS, ICA, IFLA and ICOM call upon all parties involved in implementing the complete ceasefire agreement that came into force on 10 November in Nagorno-Karabakh to proactively ensure full respect and protection of allthe cultural heritage in the concerned areas, in particular those where control is passing from one party to another (Agdam district, Kelbajar district and Lachin region). This respect and protection must extend to the conservation, interpretation and presentation of all such cultural heritage.
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/tatoyan-18-11-2020/ in Armenian – here The Ombudsman of Armenia Arman Tatoyan commented on his Facebook page on November 18, 2020, a video with the humiliation of an old Armenian man by the Azerbaijani military.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) issued a strong statement of solidarity with Armenia and Artsakh on November 13, 2020, in the aftermath of the Artsakh war. Source: web site of WCC and here.
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/appeal-12-11-2020/ Associated Press on November 12, 2020 published an Open Letter to the World Community. It was signed by 55 scientists and public figures: 42 from US, 5 from UK, 3 – France, 2 both from Israel and Czech, 1 from Italy. Action was organized by Armenian General Benevolent Union.
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/manasyan-31-10-2020/ in French – https://aga-tribunal.info/manasyan-31-10-2020-fr/ Russian information agency REGNUM on October 31, 2020 made a publication of a new article by Ph.D. in philosophy Alexandr Manasyan. Below is a translation in English. Abstract Nagorno-Karabakh does not belong to Azerbaijan BY RIGHT. The world knows about this, but ignores the law. And Baku uses this as a permit for genocide.
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/spain-5-11-2020/ Source: Armenpress, November 5, 2020
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/icc-2016/ In 2016 the International Criminal Court (ICC) has recognized Ahmed Al-Faqi Al-Mahdi guilty of war crime and has sentenced him to 9 years in prison for his responsibility in the deliberate destruction in 2012 of nine mausoleums and the secret gate of the Sidi Yahia mosque in UNESCO’s World Heritage site of Timbuktu (Mali).
Three large Armenian NGOs with Consultative Status in UN: Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU), Armenian International Women’s Association (AIWA) and Armenian Relief Society (ARS) sent an Open Letter to the Secretary General of the UN. Source: AGBU, October 27, 2020.
Article by Joel Veldkamp in The Christian Post, October 17, 2020. It was also published in CSI web site. Joel Veldkamp is the International Communications Officer at Christian Solidarity International. He received his master’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago, and is currently completing a doctoral thesis about the history of Christians in Aleppo, Syria, at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. He has lived in both Armenia and Syria and traveled throughout the greater Middle East for work and study.
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/iptca-24-10-2020/ The Organizing Committee of the International Public Tribunal for crimes of Azerbaijan made a Commentary on October 24, 2020.
in Russian – https://aga-tribunal.info/ysu-22-10-2020/ Source (Unesco Chair on Prevention of Genocide and Other Atrocity Crimes at YSU). Besides Armenia, the Appeal was signed by scientists from 20 countries, among them: Austria, Australia, Argentina, Hungary, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Israel, India, Canada, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, USA, France, Sweden, South Africa, Japan. It is symbolic that among the signatories there is not a single scientist from Russia, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine…
Source: Christian Solidarity International (CSI) web site, October 3, 2020 In open letter to President Trump, human rights group calls for U.S. to suspend military aid to Azerbaijan and Turkey