RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan considers the fact that the international mechanism defined by point 7 of the tripartite statement of November 9, 2020, has not been activated yet.

During the government session, he reminded that in point 7 it is stated that internally displaced persons and refugees return to the NK territory and adjacent regions under the supervision of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

 "This means that international mechanisms for the return of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh Hadrut, Shushi, Martuni and Martakert regions, Shahumyan, Getashen, Lachin and adjacent and other regions of Nagorno-Karabakh should be launched," said the Prime Minister.

Pashinyan noted that he instructed the Foreign Minister to start official negotiations on this topic with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

 "Representatives of ethnically cleansed Armenians from Baku, Shirvan, Sumgait, Kirovabad, Khanlar, Shamkhor, Nakhichevan and other regions of Azerbaijan are also appealing to state bodies, complaining that we do not raise the issue of their rights to return to their homes accompanied by international peacekeeping forces.

The problem is that point 7 of the statement of November 9 refers only to refugees and internally displaced persons of Nagorno-Karabakh and the regions immediately adjacent to it, but this, of course, does not prevent those ethnically cleaned Armenians from Baku, Shirvan, Sumgait, Kirovabad, Khanlar, Shamkhor, Nakhichevan and other regions of Azerbaijan to organize themselves, return and defer their rights in international courts," Pashinyan sais.