'We've been here our whole life, and we are staying here to do what we can. It would be wrong not to worry, but it would be wrong to panic and leave your post,' Artsakh representative to the U.S. told Newsweek.
"If the world is considering involvement 'before the fighting escalates into a large-scale war,'" he said,"this is the large-scale war, and the civilized world's practical involvement and the reaction is long overdue."An emergency services member stands atop the site of a grass fire started by a bomb that fell nearby on October 2 in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh.
Turkey has a troubled history with Armenians, who during and after World War I were subjected by the Ottoman Empire to a systematic ethnic cleansing campaign that a number of countries now consider a genocide. Turkey and Azerbaijan do not.
He did, however, note that such practice would likely prove destabilizing as it had in other regions where Turkey has intervened. "Definitely, Armenia is considering such a possibility in light of the ongoing aggression," Armenian ambassador to the U.S. Varuzhan Nersesyan told"As not to have a prejudice towards the outcome of the negotiation in the past, Armenia refrained from that step," he said."But right now, that's one of the possible options, of course, if this aggression goes on."
"All we need for the United States to do is to look at the map, look at the reality and understand that it is in the best interest of the United States to help Azerbaijan and Armenia to solve this conflict by ending this illegal occupation," Azerbaijani ambassador to the U.S. Elin Suleymanov told"That's as simple as that," he said."It's not about us, but it is actually about the long-term interests of the United States.
Back in Stepanakert, Avetisyan said the Artsakh forces were capable of intercepting the Azerbaijani assault with or without any international support.
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