{"id":19659,"date":"2023-07-25T22:35:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T18:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/news\/19659\/"},"modified":"2023-12-17T13:38:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T09:38:03","slug":"arcaxum-ognuthyan-hamar-aghdami-erthughu-kirarman-arajarkeh-havasarazor-e-xoshtangoghi-koghmic-xoshtangumnerin-zugaher-zohin-mi-bazhak-jur-arajarkelun-zohrab-mnacakanyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/19659\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohrab Mnatsakanyan: The proposal to provide Artsakh with humanitarian aid via Aghdam is much the same as offering a glass of water to your victims while you torture them"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Foreign Minister of Armenia Zohrab Mnatsakanyan<br>\npublished an article on the current situation in Artsakh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&ldquo;Emboldened by the victory of 2020, Baku firmly denies<br>\nthe existence of Artsakh as a political entity capable of exercising<br>\nself-governance and representative democracy with the mandate received from its<br>\nown people. They try to convince the world that Artsakh, that is,<br>\nNagorno-Karabakh, does not exist either historically, or politically, or<br>\nlegally. They &ldquo;encourage&rdquo; the people of Artsakh to use their one-way<br>\nticket to abandon their settlements,&rdquo; Mnatsakanyan wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He noted that Azerbaijan comes up with plans to populate<br>\nArtsakh with ethnic Azerbaijanis in such numbers that, in fact, their<br>\npopulation will exceed the current 120,000 Armenian population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">They consistently use force against Artsakh and shatter<br>\npeace there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&ldquo;This policy reached a crescendo during the past seven<br>\nmonths with the total blockade of Artsakh and the subsequent humanitarian<br>\ncrisis. Literally, the use of force and coercion is coupled with demagogy about<br>\nreintegration or regional peace and stability. The proposal to provide Artsakh<br>\nwith humanitarian aid via Aghdam is much the same as offering a glass of water<br>\nto your victims while you torture them. This undermines and destroys human<br>\ndignity. Moreover, it contravenes international humanitarian law,&rdquo; the<br>\nformer foreign minister wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<p><\/p><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; \"><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Foreign Minister of Armenia Zohrab Mnatsakanyan published an article on the current situation in Artsakh. &ldquo;Emboldened by the victory of 2020, Baku firmly denies the existence of Artsakh as a political entity capable of exercising self-governance and representative democracy with the mandate received from its own people. They try to convince the world that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-artsakh"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}