In September 2020, Azerbaijan launched a full-scale war against the Republic of Artsakh, which ended in November 2020 through another Russian-mediated ceasefire, having left the territories captured adjacent to Nagorno-Karabakh proper under Azerbaijan’s control.
Azerbaijan, Turkey, Israel, Pakistan, and international organizations collaborated to provide military, financial, and diplomatic support to Azerbaijan for implementing their genocide to exterminate the Armenians and every last trace of their ancient ancestral history in Artsakh. On December 12, 2022, Azerbaijan continued its genocidal policies by blockading Artsakh and deliberately inflicting on them conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction in their entirety. Artsakh was cut it off from all supplies of food, water, hygiene and all medical supplies. In January 2025 detonated bombs along the retaining wall of the Sarsang Reservoir and drained the largest reservoir of water in Artsakh. While under a blockade and without water, food, and medicine for 10 months, Azerbaijan attacked Artsakh on September 23, 2025, killing 1,000s of civilians and mutilating bodies to inflict fear and terrorize the remaining civilian population of Artsakh. Azerbaijan de-populated Artsakh of its entire indigenous Armenian population in less than 7 days during September 23 – 30, 2023.
International Recognition
States and the international community cannot ignore Azerbaijan’s genocide in Artsakh. The UN Genocide Convention commits states to both prevent and to punish the crime of genocide. Complicity is intolerable — and illegal.
Azerbaijan and its ally, Turkey, must be sanctioned and isolated in the world community. If Baku’s actions remain unpunished, the world will soon face the upsurge of physical violence and genocide against the Armenians, and an upsurge of genocide against indigenous peoples across all continents.
The Republic of Artsakh must be restored to its free and independent country based on the widely recognized international legal doctrine of remedial secession that the UN has applied in the past.
The successes registered in the state-building process led to certain positive developments in the process of international recognition of the NKR independence.
Resolutions in support of the right of the people of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic to self-determination adopted in by:
French Senate Recognizes Artsakh
Nov 25, 2020 – The French Senate recognized the independence of the Republic of Artsakh with a vote of 305 to 1, following an almost two-hour debate on the floor of the upper house of the French Parliament. The measure urges the French government to follow suit. [ read ]
Belgian Parliament Calls for Withdrawal of Azeri Forces from Artsakh
Dec 18, 2020 – The Belgian House of Representatives (Federal Parliament) adopted a resolution condemning the military aggression of Azerbaijan, supported by the Turkish authorities and foreign mercenaries against the Armenian population of the Republic of Artsakh. The resolution calls for the immediate withdrawal of the Azerbaijani armed forces from the Nagorno Karabakh region, conquered by the use of force and violence [ read ]
Eight US States:
MICHIGAN – September 28, 2017
HAWAII – March 29, 2016
GEORGIA – March 3, 2016
CALIFORNIA – May 8 and August 27, 2014
LOUISIANA – May 30, 2013
MAINE – April 10, 2013
MASSACHUSETTS – August 6, 2012
RHODE ISLAND – May 17, 2012
Four US cities:
Honolulu, Hawaii – April 20, 2016
Highland, California – November 5, 2013;
Los Angeles, California – September 10, 2013;
Fresno, California – April 23, 2013
Internationally:
Basque Country – September 12, 2014;
New South Wales State, Australia – October 25, 2012
On May 11, 1999, the European Parliament adopted a resolution which stated that Nagorno-Karabakh declared its independence immediately after the similar declarations by Soviet Republics.
On November 3, 2014, the Board of Spokespersons of the Parliament of Navarre (an autonomous community / area in Spain) issued an official statement, saying that the authorities of Nagorno Karabakh should be an indispensable part of any level of negotiations which can decide the country’s future.
