YEREVAN—The Armenian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has issued passports to forcibly displaced citizens of Artsakh listing Azerbaijan as their birthplace.
Multiple individuals applying for Armenian citizenship told Tert.am that their passports incorrectly designate Azerbaijan as their birthplace.
In response to these concerns, the MIA clarified that the registration of personal data in identification documents follows international standards, specifically ICAO (International Civil
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Since Armenia in the wake of defeat renounced claims and the area is internationally recognised as Azerbaijan upon the basis of it being in the Azeri SSR like all other parts of the former soviet union then it would have been legally wrong to refer to it as Armenia no matter how emotive the issue is. Indeed such persons seeking nationality of any other country would be listed by their authorities as Azerbaijan. Or do they want the situation akin to the Palestinians in Lebanon and Syria who have intergenerational refugee status as unable to go back to the former Palestine as of the British mandate area, living in Armenia but unable to receive Armenian nationality from their ethnic kin and the burden of being stateless and ultimately used as a stalking horse by puppeteers and agitators like the Palestinians have by their “brother Arabs” . The Armenian government is in granting citizenship accepting it’s brethren and not using them as a foil to expect them to return to Azerbaijan when everything documented will be in Azeri and the Alyiev cult or to join the wider Armenian diaspora …
This was not Azerbaijan’s war against Armenia. This was a premeditated invasion of Armenian-liberated territories by NATO member Turkey’s terrorist defense ministry. I understand that Azerbaijani armed forces were involved in this invasion but without terrorist Turkey taking the lead by planning and executing the entire invasion there is no way in hell Azerbaijan could do what was done and that not to the Armenia’s armed forces but to a small Armenian defense forces in the conflict zone with some volunteers from Armenia. After all, Armenia was the guarantor of the security of Artsakh and had to engage the enemy in its defense but most of the Armenian military resources were not even used in this joint Turkish-Azerbaijani invasion. Therefore, it is wrong to credit militarily incompetent Azerbaijan any victory or to claim that Armenia was defeated by Azerbaijan. That did not happen. The last time I checked Azerbaijan was not a NATO member state to have and to use NATO weapons in an invasion orchestrated by terrorist Turkey. In fact, if you identify and connect the dots, you can not come to any conclusion other than one that not only terrorist Turkey but its western puppets had a hand in all of this. They were the ones who kept saying this conflict can have no military solution but they themselves let it happen and when it did they did not lift a finger to stop it. This was part of their overall regional project and terrorist Turkey, Azerbaijan, Northern Syrian ISIS terrorists, recruited by Turkey and paid by Azerbaijan petrodollars, and even Israel’s participation were the tools to achieve their goals. Their goals had many purposes. For the west it was securing their multi-billion dollar investments in the Caspian oil & gas pumped into energy-hungry Europe in addition to pushing Russia out of the region. For terrorist Turkey it was their century-long plan and dreams of linking to their ancestral homeland in Central Asia to control untapped energy resources there in absence of Soviet Union and Russian Federation to be used as a leverage in European politics that will be more pro Turkish. For Azerbaijan it was the reoccupation of Armenian-liberated territories and for Aliyev to continue to remain in power. And for Israel, hence for USA and a few other western states by association, it was the establishment of military presence on reoccupied Armenian territories right next door to Iran to be used as a launching pad for an invasion into Iran to destroy their nuclear facilities.
P.S. The reason behind Armenian government, led by a bunch of unpatriotic traitors, issuing passports to forcibly displaced citizens of Artsakh listing Azerbaijan as their birthplace is to deny them the right to vote against Pashinyan in upcoming presidential elections. They are perceived as a threat to the current Armenian government which is on its way out anyway.
Before the Second Artsakh War, Aliyev fooled the outside world, by saying that Azerbaijan would give the Armenians of Artsakh “the highest autonomy in the world”. But after Azerbaijan’s victory in the 2020 war, he completely rescinded the offer by saying that “Nagorno-Karabakh will never be given autonomy”, while maintaining his pretense that “Armenians living in Karabakh must either accept Azerbaijani citizenship or look for another place to live” and that “I am sure that the majority of the Armenian population living in Karabakh today is ready to accept Azerbaijani citizenship. It’s just that these leeches, these wild animals, the separatists don’t allow it” (meaning the Artsakhi leaders and officials). After the fall of Artsakh and the ethnic cleansing of all Armenians in 2023, Aliyev also dropped his pretense of granting the Armenians of Artsakh Azerbaijani citizenship and passports. Since Azerbaijan will never grant Azerbaijani citizenship to Armenians and allow them to live in Azerbaijan, let alone in Artsakh, where almost every Armenian cultural heritage has been systematically destroyed, whole apartment blocks and villages razed to the ground, the naturalization and integration of Artsakhi refugees in Armenia is a must. They must not languish like Palestinian refugees for decades in limbo. Traumatic and horrible as the loss of Artsakh is, at least there is still an independent Armenian state where Armenians can live and become its citizens. The Palestinians don’t have that at all.