US envoy talks to Armenians who voluntarily left Karabakh PHOTO

US Ambassador to Armenia Kristina Queen visited on October 30 the town of Kafan on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

Caliber.Az reports, citing the Armenian media, that the American diplomat talked with people who voluntarily left Karabakh.

Almost the entire Armenian population have voluntarily left the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, despite Baku’s calls to stay and reintegrate. Although the Azerbaijani government pledged to guarantee all fundamental rights for their speedy reintegration, they opted to relocate to neighbouring Armenia.

The Azerbaijani authorities facilitated the movement of the Armenian residents who voluntarily left the region via the Lachin road. Forty buses were dispatched by Baku to the border zone upon the request of the Armenian residents’ representatives.

The Azerbaijani authorities ordered the State Migration Service to register Armenian residents of the Karabakh region to ensure their sustainable reintegration into Azerbaijani society, based on the guarantees of fundamental rights, including cultural, educational, religious, and municipal.

Employees from the Labour and Social Protection Ministry have also been dealing with the issues related to the reintegration process.

The voluntary relocation of the Armenian residents from the Karabakh region began after the Azerbaijani military conducted one-day anti-terror measures to neutralize illegal formations of the Armenian army in the region.

The 24-hour anti-terror operation from September 19-20 disabled almost the entire military infrastructure of the separatists, leaving them no choice but to surrender.

The capitulation of the illegal Armenian armed formations in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan came on September 20 after they retreated, agreeing to complete disarmament. The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, in coordination with the Russian peacekeepers, confiscated weapons, ammunition, and military equipment from the illegal Armenian troops in the region.

Meanwhile, on September 28, the so-called leadership of the Armenian separatists in the Karabakh region announced self-dissolution.

A relevant decree was signed by the regime's self-proclaimed "president," Samvel Shahramanyan. The document states that "all institutions and organizations" of the separatist regime will be dissolved by January 1, 2024, and the so-called "Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) ceases to exist."

It also called on the Armenian residents of the Karabakh region to become acquainted with the conditions of reintegration presented by Azerbaijan, in order to subsequently make an independent and individual decision on the possibility of staying in (or returning to) the Karabakh region.