For 30 years, RA passport was given to the people of Artsakh, but on October 26, 2023, it turned out that those people were not Armenian citizens. " Artsakh Human Rights Defender Gegham Stepanyan stated this today, February 18.
"On October 26, 2023, Armenia made a decision to recognize the people of Artsakh, based on a agreement, which was signed between Armenia and NKR on February 26, 1999, which was defined. These passports given to the people of Artsakh are travel documents. The whole practice of these legal relations proves the opposite. If these passports were to have travel documents, they should not have the opportunity to enter into certain legal relations within these passports, "he said.
According to Gegham Stepanyan, these passports were provided by the RA citizens equal, equal to various legal relations. "Artsakh people in Armenia took part in the 2021 parliamentary elections. There are more than 100 such decisions that the court has regained the people in the electoral lists. If we try to complete all this, since 2023 did not prove that the passport with a code 070 is a document that does not unpress the RA citizenship, "Gegham Stepanyan said.
According to Gegham Stepnanyan, the right to return to the people of Artsakh is not on the negotiating table, and there is no reason to compact the Artsakh residential program. "There is no foundation for keeping the people of Artsakh and the demand for Artsakh. The goal is simply to close the topic of Artsakh, forgetting Artsakh. The status of being forcibly displaced is one of the important elements of maintaining this claim.
If they are trying to eliminate that status, they try to say, or they are already saying directly, what happened, it was, Armenia is also your homeland, integrate and live, "said Ms. Gegham Stepanyan.
