The spokesperson for the Armenian cabinet, Nazeli Bagdasarian, published on social networks that Armenia had received 84,770 displaced people until September 29, out of an estimated population of 120,000.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has repeatedly assured that Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh will have the same rights as other citizens now that Baku has regained full control over the separatist region.

However, Hikmet Hajiyev, Aliyev’s adviser, said last week that the integration of Karabakh Armenians into the economic, political and social life of Azerbaijan will find difficulties, and there will be those who decide to leave.

On September 19, Azerbaijan announced the beginning of an “anti-terrorist operation” in Nagorno-Karabakh to achieve “the withdrawal of Armenian troops” from the territory, although Armenia has denied the presence of its troops in the region, and called the operation an “aggression” against the people of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The next day, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense announced a truce in Nagorno-Karabakh, the conditions of which include, in particular, the disarmament and dissolution of illegal Armenian groups in the region.

On September 24, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called to establish effective mechanisms to protect the Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh from ethnic cleansing, and warned that the exodus may be the only way to save their lives and identities.

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