New War Report shows Armenia’s aggressive policy towards Azerbaijan

/By AzerNews/

By Sara Rajabova

The newly released War Report unequivocally reaffirms the occupation of Azerbaijan’s territories by Armenia and the continued military aggression of this country against Azerbaijan.

The War Report project launched last December at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva has been publicly available since 2015, according to Azerbaijan’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office and other international organizations at Geneva, AzerTag news agency reported.

The War Report was prepared by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights – a joint centre of the Graduate Institute and University of Geneva – and published by Oxford University Press.

The report provides extensive information about 39 armed conflicts that occurred on the territory of 26 states during 2013. The objective of the War Report is to serve as a source of reference and information on the conflicts around the globe for states, UN and its specialized agencies, international non-governmental organizations and academic circles.

On the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the report emphasized that the only parties to the conflict are Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The occupation of more than one-seventh of Azerbaijan’s territory, as well as the obligations of Armenia as an occupying power was mentioned at the pages 44-48 of the report, devoted to the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. This very part of the report is entitled “Military occupation of Azerbaijan by Armenia”.

Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor that caused a brutal war in the early 1990s. Long-standing efforts by U.S, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.

As a result of the military aggression of Armenia, over 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed, 4,866 are reported missing and almost 100,000 were injured, and 50,000 were disabled.

The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been enforced to this day.

The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights aims to conduct and promote scientific research, organize training courses and expert meetings and provide legal expertise in the branches of international law relating to situations of armed conflicts.

Geneva Academy was founded jointly in 2007 by the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. The University of Lausanne, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Swiss Federal Department for Foreign Affairs contribute to achieving the objectives of the Academy.

The first edition of the War Report covered the year of 2012. It was released on December 2013.