British MPs from the All-Party Parliamentary Group for
Armenia called on the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to
denounce the Azerbaijani atrocities in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenpress reports.
The MPs wrote Foreign Secretary James Cleverly a letter,
urging him to break the British Government’s silence on the continuing
atrocities carried out by Azerbaijan against the Armenian population of
Nagorno-Karabakh.
Chair of the APPG for Armenia Tim Loughton made a statement
as well:
‘The humanitarian situation in Nagorno-Karabakh is reaching
crisis point. The illegal blockade of the Lachin corridor by the Azerbaijani
Government has no justification and has been done under the nose of the
supposed peace-keeping forces. The deliberate denial of vital supplies to the
people of Nagorno-Karabakh is the latest attempt at ethnic cleansing by the
Aliyev Government and needs to be called out for what it is. The human misery
and huge displacement of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh appears to be part of
the Azerbaijani plan to force out the legitimate citizens of this troubled
area, who are facing a threat of genocide.”
