"Armenia has violated its obligations arising from international humanitarian law, refusing to provide information about the fate of the persons who went missing in the First Karabakh War and the exact location of mass graves. Armenia must apologize for all these crimes it has committed," President Ilham Aliyev said in his address to the participants of the International Baku Forum on “Climate Change and Human Rights: the Role of Ombudsmen and National Human Rights Institutions”, APA reports.
"Although the conflict is over now, unfortunately, the serious consequences of Armenia's 30-year military aggression are still there, posing a huge threat to people's lives and the environment. Armenia has committed ecocide, urbicide, and culturicide in our occupied territories, polluting and poisoning our lands and rivers, destroying our forests, razing our cities and villages to the ground, as well as planting countless mines that threaten people's right to live here and cause serious damage to the environment. At the same time, our people’s cultural heritage of global importance has been destroyed and our religious and cultural monuments have been wiped out the face of the earth," head of state noted.
"Extensive construction work is currently underway in the territories liberated from occupation to enable the return of our compatriots whose fundamental rights were flagrantly violated and who were expelled from their homes for more than 30 years. We are restoring the infrastructure and ecosystem destroyed during the occupation, new cities and villages are under construction in Karabakh and East Zangezur, which have been declared a “green energy” zone," President Ilham Aliyev added.