News - EU should take action to prevent ethnic cleansing in Karabakh, Armenian FM tells his Lithuanian counterpart

Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan has met with Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis and presented both the details of Azerbaijani aggression against the people in Nagorno-Karabakh and the broader picture of the security situation in the South CaucasusIn a post on his microblog in X Ararat Mirzoyan said that during the meeting he emphasized the “need for concrete actions by EU and its member states to restrain Azerbaijani intention of ethnic cleansing” in Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan launched a large-scale attack against Nagorno-Karabakh on September 19, among the casualties and wounded are civilians. On September 20, it became known that the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh accepted the proposal of the command of the Russian peacekeeping mission regarding the cessation of fire. Proposal by Azerbaijan envisages the withdrawal of the remaining units and servicemen of the RA Armed Forces from the deployment zone of the Russian peacekeeping troops and the dissolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh armed formations, the complete disarmament of the Defense Army, as well as the withdrawal of heavy equipment and weapons from the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh in order to quickly eliminate them. In addition, on Thursday, the representatives of Artsakh and Azerbaijan will meet in Yevlakh, a city in Azerbaijan located about 100 km northeast of Stepanakert, and the issues of ensuring the security of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians will be discussed.