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23.06.2021
Tatevik Hayrapetyan’s Speech during PACE Session
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“While the world was fighting the pandemic, children in Artsakh were in the shelters. So, one of the 8-year-olds remembers: we were lucky it was Sunday otherwise if we had gone to school it would be very hard to survive. As a result, actually of the Azerbaijani attack which was accompanied by the open help from Turkey, large numbers of people have been wounded and they required medical care, which has put the Armenian and Nagorno-Karabakh healthcare systems under unprecedented pressure.

This strain has forced many of existing Covid-19 centers to shift their scope and most non-emergency medical care has either been delayed or cancelled. Nagorno-Karabakh, with a population of 150.000 people had the pandemic case before like 300 cases. However, because of the widespread destruction and displacement of people, it was impossible to track the Covid-19 situation on the ground.

Furthermore, regular bombardments forced residents in the major cities to seek refuge in large groups in basements and bunkers, which are confined spaces. Thus increasing the chances of the spread of the virus.

So, according to 77 protocol of Geneva Convention ‘children shall be the object of special respect and shall be protected against any form of assault.’ However, it was not the case during 44 days in Nagorno-Karabakh. The war had a devastating effect, not only on the physical but also on the mental health of children living there. Children who have lost their parents, homes, normal life and have looked into the eyes of death.

And, just some statistics, because of Azerbaijani aggression, 71 schools and 14 kindergartens were destroyed. Because of that aggression, accompanied by Covid-19 pandemic, more than 8.000 children lost their right to education. As a result, 24 children were deprived to attend schools. So, pandemic accompanied by the aggression and war destroyed lives of many Armenian children living in Nagorno-Karabakh and creating lots of pain and mental problems for them for their entire life.

In the end, I want to thank you for the important topic you brought up and I found it very important that, apart from all the calls coming from international partners to fight together against the pandemic, in Nagorno-Karabakh people have to fight also against the aggression and war,” Tatevik Hayrapetyan said.


23.06.2021
Naira Zohrabyan Delivers a Speech at PACE Session
At PACE Summer Session the deputy Naira Zohrabyan delivers a speech.“I spoke to the boys who returned to the country two weeks ago: they saw the other side of the prison in Baku. They were in hell. And I will call on you again and every day that concrete sanctions are needed, otherwise Azerbaijan co...

23.06.2021
Deputy Naira Zohrabyan’s Speech at PACE Summer Session
The NA deputy Naira Zohrabyan spoke about fake news and anti-Armeniannism at PACE session.“Azerbaijan educated a whole generation that is growing up in hatred and hostility towards Armenians, and Armenophobia continues remaining state policy.When Aliev announces that they should drive away the Armen...

23.06.2021
Tatevik Hayrapetyan’s Speech at PACE Summer Session
The NA deputy Tatevik Hayrapetyan delivered a speech at PACE Summer Session during the debate of the report Media Freedom, Public Trust and People’s Right to Know.“Dear colleagues,Ladies and gentlemen,...

23.06.2021
Deputy Tatevik Hayrapetyan Delivers a Speech at PACE Session
Dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen.As colleagues mentioned before and also my Armenian colleague Mr Sos Avetisyan said, Armenia has chosen the path of democracy. This is a fact, whatever it means for any of us. It's important that only our people can choose how to get out of the crisis in our cou...

23.06.2021
Sos Avetisyan Delivers a Speech at PACE Summer Session
Ms President, thank you very much.I also want to thank my colleagues Ms Petra Bayr and Mr Aleksander Pociej for noting Armenia's elections.In a rather difficult period my people were able to wisely go to the elections and choose the government....

23.06.2021
NA Deputy Sos Avetisyan Delivers a Speech at PACE Session
Thank you, Madam Chair.I also want to thank the rapporteur for his work, which we have also discussed in our party.The thing with comparing Spain and Turkey is very difficult for me because, as an observer, for me, it is clear that Spain is a much more democratic country than Turkey, at this stage, ...

23.06.2021
Sos Avetisyan’s Speech at PACE Session
Thank you, Chairperson.I would also like to join in congratulating Baroness Doreen Massey for her excellent work where she has looked at the Covid-19 pandemic and its challenges from the angle of how the children, the most vulnerable and most beloved group, are facing.A story that I want to tell you...



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