Artsakh State Minister Delivers Lectures at Fletcher School, Harvard University

As a graduate of Tufts University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Minister of State was invited to deliver a lecture—at this leading US university of diplomacy—on the geopolitics of the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict.

In his lecture, Artak Beglaryan stressed that Azerbaijan and Turkey continue to show destabilizing behavior in the region, also regularly violating the rights of the people of Artsakh.

The Artsakh state minister stressed the importance of the aforesaid conflict’s fair settlement based on the norms of international law, including the right of peoples to self-determination, in order to ensure lasting peace in the South Caucasus.

Also, the Artsakh official presented the developments and current trends in the South Caucasus in the context of broad regional and international developments. He stressed that in 2020 Artsakh became one of the main targets of such challenges, which, due to its methodology and the involvement of terrorist groups, is fraught with tangible dangers for remote regions as well.

And at the Harvard University, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Artak Beglaryan presented the human rights issues that have come about during and after the 2020 war in Artsakh, and the Azerbaijani atrocities committed against the Armenian people. He stressed the need for the international research circles to pay due attention to the atrocities committed, and noted that such attention can be a deterrent to similar human rights violations in the region and around the world.

This piece was republished from news.am.