Appeal To UN Raises Awareness About Plight Of Western Azerbaijan 

Alongside making this appeal, the Western Azerbaijani community recently adopted the “Concept on Ensuring Peaceful, Safe and Dignified Return of Azerbaijanis expelled from nowadays Armenia,” which proclaimed: “the ethnic cleansing committed against Azerbaijanis was carried out through violence, genocide, mass murder and other crimes against humanity and gross violation of human rights guided by the systematic activity of state authorities. This process was particularly violent and brutal in 1905-1906, 1918-1921, 1948-1953, and 1987-1991.”

According to them, “The consequences of these acts, as well as the actions committed by the institutions called ‘Republic of Armenia’ and ‘Republic of Mountainous Armenia’ in 1918-1921, in particular by the Soviet Union’s notorious leader Joseph Stalin, who signed a racist decision to concede many regions dominated by Azerbaijanis, including Zangezur, to Armenia and to deport a hundred thousand Azerbaijanis from Armenia, and by the Armenian SSR in 1987-1991, are still in place.”  

According to the Western Azerbaijani community, “Armenia commenced a total ethnic cleansing campaign against Azerbaijanis living in the Armenian SSR. Such processes served to create a mono-ethnic space and territorial expansion contrary to human rights and international law. With such a racist and aggressive approach, Armenia not only expelled Azerbaijanis from their territories but also occupied the legally recognized territories of Azerbaijan.” 

The community claims that Azerbaijan’s great victory in the Second Karabakh War “is an important step towards restoring justice and increases the chances for peace between the two countries.”