Ethnic Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh as Russia fails to uphold peace deal

RIGA, Latvia — Hundreds of Armenians waiting for gasoline to flee the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh were injured in an explosion at a fuel depot on Monday, according to local officials, as senior U.S. officials visited Armenia and pledged humanitarian support to deal with a flood of refugees that began Sunday ahead of an imminent takeover by Azerbaijan.

Two senior U.S. officials — Samantha Power, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and Yuri Kim, acting assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasian affairs — met Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Yerevan on Monday.Pashinyan warned Power on that ethnic cleansing of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh “is happening right now, and it is a very tragic fact.”

Baku’s success in its military operation last week marked a sweeping change in a strategic and fragile South Caucasus region, traversed by crucial oil and gas pipelines, where Russia, Turkey and the West all jostle for influence and leverage.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Monday accused Pashinyan of “unacceptable attacks on Russia,” claiming these were “inspired by the West,” and were destructive for Armenia and its alliance with Russia.Moscow was deeply irritated by a U.S.-Armenia military training exercise that ended last week, and by Pashinyan’s recent announcement that Armenia would join the Rome Statute that established the International Criminal Court.

Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev are due to meet for talks in Granada, Spain, on Oct. 5. Pashinyan initially claimed there was “no direct threat” to the Armenian population of Nagorno- Karabakh but in a televised address Sunday he said there was a risk of mass murder.“If real conditions for Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians to live in their homes and effective mechanisms of protection from ethnic cleansing are not created, the chances that the Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians will see leaving their homeland as the only way to save their lives and identity is greatly increased,” he said.

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