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As it is well-known, almost 20 per cent of the internationally recognized territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan, including its Nagorno Karabakh region and seven adjacent districts still remain under illegal occupation of the armed forces of the Republic of Armenia, which conducted total ethnic cleansing against the original Azerbaijani population. (...) In that regard, it should be reminded that the Republic of Armenia bears the primary responsibility for unleashing the war against the Republic of Azerbaijan, occupying its territories, committing the most serious crimes of concern to the international community during the conflict, carrying out an ethnic cleansing on a massive scale and establishing the ethnically constructed subordinate separatist entity on the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.

As a result, about one-fifth of the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan has been occupied; more than one million Azerbaijanis have been subjected to ethnic cleansing in occupied lands and Armenia itself. During this aggression, numerous military offenses, crimes against humanity and genocide were committed against the civilian population of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia as the aggressor bears the responsibility for them. (...) It is incontrovertible today that no official or political status cloaks the person concerned with immunity for the most serious international crimes, such as war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and ethnic cleansing. Alongside the ongoing prosecution of persons charged with committing various crimes against their own people in Armenia, the trial over the crimes committed by them against the Azerbaijani people is also crucial for the establishment of international justice and can contribute to the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict by peaceful means.

The Commissioner recommended to include the discrimination, xenophobia, ethnic cleansing on the ground of race, nationality, religion, and other grounds and fighting against other similar cases to the list of priority issues of national human rights institutions (NHRIs) as well as international organizations, dealing with the protection of human rights; and to join efforts for punishment of the States charged in crimes with severe violation of human rights at the international level. (...) As a result of this occupation one million people were forced to leave their homes, became refugees and internally displaced persons, thousands of compatriots became victims of genocide acts, mass annihilation and ethnic cleansing, civil population, children, young people, persons with disabilities, women, elderly persons went missing, were taken captive and hostage, thousands of living, education, healthcare and other social objects, as well as historical – cultural monuments were destroyed.

Armenia unleashed the war, used force against Azerbaijan and occupied its territories, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven adjacent districts, carried out ethnic cleansing of the seized areas by expelling about one million Azerbaijanis from their places of origin, committed other serious crimes during the conflict and established the ethnically constructed subordinate separatist entity on the occupied Azerbaijani territory. 2. (...) In its resolution 1416 (2005) of 25 January 2005, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, of which both Armenia and Azerbaijan are members, noted particularly that large-scale ethnic expulsion of the Azerbaijani civilian population and the creation of mono-ethnic areas resemble the terrible concept of ethnic cleansing. The European Court of Human Rights later arrived at an important conclusion qualifying the offences of the invading Armenian troops against Azerbaijani civilians as acts of particular gravity that amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity2. (...) The obligations under such norms arise from those substantive rules of conduct that prohibit what has come to be seen as intolerable because of the threat it presents to the survival of States and their peoples and the most basic human values.11 Among these prohibitions, it is generally agreed that the prohibitions of aggression, genocide, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, racial discrimination, torture and slavery are to be regarded as peremptory.12 There can be no 6 See e.g. the ICRC document "Missing persons and their families.

Additionally, the blockade imposed on Armenia by Azerbaijan and Turkey since early 1990s as a result of the drive of the people of Nagorno Karabakh to exercise peacefully its right to self-determination and the military attempts by Azerbaijan to stifle it at any cost by ethnically cleansing these territories from its rightful owners, has impacted the full enjoyment of the economic, social, cultural and religious rights in the Republic of Armenia. 9. (...) It should be noted that the Azerbaijani attempts to give a new nature to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict by depicting it as a conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan goes in line with its policy of revision of history, roots and causes of the conflict, its aggression against Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia and the full-scale war unleashed in 1992 with the only purpose of cleansing the Armenian population of Nagorno Karabakh from its ancestral home. (...) Azerbaijan forgets the extensive efforts exerted aimed at ethnically cleansing the whole territory of its Armenian population as an answer to the Nagorno Karabakh people’s peaceful call for self-determination, and the war of aggression unleashed that has resulted in the loss of thousands of lives and hundred thousands of people becoming refugees and internally displaced people from both sides. 15.

(2.5.1) no 4.10 Corrosivity (2.8) to: 4.10.1 mild steel ……….…no data 4.10.2 aluminium ………… no data 4.10.3 other packaging materials (specify) …………………. (...) (2.5.1) no 4.10 Corrosivity (2.8) to: 4.10.1 mild steel ……….…no data 4.10.2 aluminium ………… no data 4.10.3 other packaging materials (specify) …………………. (...) (2.5.1) no 4.10 Corrosivity (2.8) to: 4.10.1 mild steel ……….…no data 4.10.2 aluminium ………… no data 4.10.3 other packaging materials (specify) ………………….

As a consequence of the occupation of Azerbaijani territories, hundreds of thousands of IDPs remain expelled from their homes due to the ethnic cleansing policy. In this context, I wish to highlight the case of the two of them - Dilgam Askerov and Shahbaz Guliyev, who were taken hostage by Armenia and subjected to torture and other degrading treatment. (...) Such a position aims at legitimizing the results of the ethnic cleansing, and openly contradicts the philosophy of international human rights law that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interrelated and interdependent and no one can claim for an individual or collective right at the expense of rights and freedoms of others.

Those actions started with the attacks on the Azerbaijani population both in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and in Armenia itself, continued with Armenia’s direct military aggression against Azerbaijan since 1991 and culminated in the brutal killing of thousands of Azerbaijani civilians, the ethnic cleansing of about 1 million indigenous Azerbaijanis from their homes in both Armenia and the occupied territories of Azerbaijan and the extensive destruction and pillaging of the seized areas. (...) Armenian ideologists and their supporters in the high political leadership of the USSR, understanding the illegality of the separation of Nagorno-Karabakh from Azerbaijan based on the Soviet Constitution, resorted to such provocation with the aim of justifying the idea of impossibility of further coexistence of Armenians together with Azerbaijanis, providing the complete ethnic cleansing of the Azerbaijani population in Armenia and discrediting Azerbaijan.

(2.4.41) yes/no 4.8.1 If yes, give details 4.9 Does the substance have oxidizing properties (2.5.11) yes/no 4.9.1 If yes, give details 4.10 Corrosivity (2.81) to: no data available, metal packagings should not be used 4.10.1 mild steel mm/year at °C 4.10.2 aluminium mm/year at °C 4.10.3 other packaging materials (specify) mm/year at °C .. mm/year at °C 4.11 Other relevant chemical properties ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/2005/29 page 9 Annexe 2 Section 5. HARMFUL BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS 5.1 LD50, oral (2.6.2.1.11): 2000 mg/kg, Animal species: rat 5.2 LD50, dermal (2.6.2.1.21): no data available mg/kg, Animal species 5.3 LC50, inhalation (2.6.2.1.31): no data available mg/litre Exposure time hours or ml/m3 Animal species 5.4 Saturated vapour concentration at 20 °C (2.6.2.2.4.31): no data available ml/m3 5.5 Skin exposure (2.81) results: “mild” Exposure time hours/minutes 24 hours (500 mg) Animal species rabbit 5.6 Other data 5.7 Human experience Section 6.

Stemming from the said it is clear that Armenia in its attempts to legalize the results of the use of force and ethnic cleansing, frequently speculates on the international legal principle of the right of peoples to self- determination. (...) Therefore, allegations of the Republic of Armenia in the said paragraphs are intended at defaming Azerbaijan and hiding ethnic cleansing policy towards Azerbaijanis living in the territory of Armenia and the Azerbaijani population of the occupied lands of Azerbaijan. 43. (...) Today the refugees and internally displaced persons, who constitute the one ninth of the population of Azerbaijan, continue to suffer from the consequences of aggression and ethnic cleansing, which deprived them not only of their homelands, but also natural rights and freedoms.