Armenia says Turkey seeks to continue genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said the
actions of Turkey and Azerbaijan amounted to a “terroristic attack” over Nagorno-Karabakh
that formed part of the continuation of Armenian genocide.
“What we are facing is an Azeri-Turkish
international terroristic attack,” Pashinyan told Sky News. “To me there is no
doubt that this is a policy of continuing the Armenian genocide and a policy of
reinstating the Turkish empire.”
The Armenian genocide refers to the killing of 1.5
million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923.
Turkey accepts that many Armenians living in the
Ottoman Empire were killed in clashes with Ottoman forces during World War One,
but contests the figures and denies that the killings were systematically
orchestrated and constitute a genocide.
Meanwhile, France's foreign minister said on
Wednesday that talks would be held in Geneva on Thursday and Moscow on Monday
to try to convince the warring sides in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to agree
to negotiate a ceasefire.
Jean-Yves Le Drian told parliament's foreign affairs
committee that France, Russia and the United States would hold those talks to
start a dialogue that needed to take place without preconditions.
