Karabakh activists condemn attempts to seize building in Yerevan from NKR authorities
The Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia has demanded that the Nagorno-Karabakh government's right to a building in the center of Yerevan be declared invalid. Such actions by the Armenian authorities are unacceptable, said representatives of the Council for the Protection of the Rights of the People of Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian opposition.
As "Caucasian Knot" reported, the Council for the Protection of the Rights of the People of Nagorno-Karabakh announced a mass rally and march on July 12, calling on the church and all political forces to support the demands of the refugees. On the eve of the rally, the police summoned the organizers of the action for a conversation. The Yerevan City Hall rejected applications to hold a march and a sit-in after the rally. The refugee rally continued with an indefinite sit-in protest demanding that the Armenian authorities resolve the problems of internally displaced persons. The protesting refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh submitted their demands to the Armenian government, but the authorities refused to fulfill them. The Council for the Protection of the Rights of Karabakh Citizens stated that the street protests did not produce the expected results.
In April, the Council for the Protection of the Rights of Citizens of Nagorno-Karabakh held a month-long tent protest on Freedom Square in Yerevan, achieving an extension of social assistance to refugees for another two months. This decision is only a temporary measure, the authorities do not take into account the realities of life in Armenia and housing prices, displaced persons and protesters interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" said. In June, activists said they were starting a new stage of the struggle.
On July 15, the Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit in the Administrative Court against the Cadastre Committee, demanding that the state registration of the property rights of the government of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) to a building in Yerevan be declared invalid, according to the Datalex judicial information system database. The supervisory body demands that the building of the Permanent Representation of Artsakh in the capital be returned to the state, Armenia Today reported.
The Council for the Protection of the Rights of the People of Nagorno-Karabakh condemned attempts to invalidate the ownership rights to the building of the Artsakh representative office in Yerevan
“The Armenian authorities are taking actual steps to belittle the role of the Armenian institutions of Artsakh and eliminate them. Such steps are extremely unacceptable for us and worthy of condemnation. The importance of the existence and duration of the state institutions of Artsakh is a value and an important goal for us. We attach great importance to the preservation of the building of the Permanent Representation of Artsakh in Yerevan and assure that we will continue to do everything possible to preserve the state institutions and the building of the representative office, regardless of the decision to move our office from this building. The Council believes that even in this difficult period, our joint efforts can ensure the protection of the rights of the people of Artsakh, including the preservation of state institutions," News, Am quoted the Council's statement today.
The Armenian government is trying to deprive the Karabakh people of the building that serves as a gathering place and location of state institutions, thereby sending a signal to the Azerbaijanis about its determination to close the page of Artsakh and break any resistance, said Tigran Abrahamyan, secretary of the opposition parliamentary faction "I have the honor" of the Armenian parliament.
According to him, "the authorities are preparing another concession in the form of a "gift" in the context of the Armenia-Azerbaijan and Armenia-Turkey negotiations," the Novosti Armenia agency reported on July 16.
We recall that the former leaders of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic have not actually controlled the situation in the fall of 2023. Nagorno-Karabakh. Following the mass exodus of Nagorno-Karabakh residents to Armenia, the president of the unrecognized republic signed a decree to end its existence, civil servants were dismissed, but senior officials continued to work in Yerevan. On January 1, 2024, the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic ceased to exist in accordance with the decree of its last president Samvel Shahramanyan. On September 2, 2024, on the anniversary of the proclamation of the republic, Shahramanyan stated that the signing of the decree on the dissolution of Nagorno-Karabakh was forced.
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