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Statement against Azerbaijan's Authoritarianism, COP29 and Green Capitalism, Wars, and Regional Slide into Authoritarianism

Caucasus Feminist Anti-War Movement — 2024-11-23T13:25:53Z

Caucasus Feminist Anti-War Movement—C-FAM is an emerging movement of feminist and anti-war/peace activists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Unified in our defiance, C-FAM originated from a powerful solidarity action to confront the greenwashing practices at COP29 taking place in Azerbaijan on November 2024, one of the largest events in our region in recent times. Our movement embodies the principles of feminism, anti-militarism, anti-war, anti-authoritarianism, anti-nationalism, and anti-capitalism, opposing oppressive systems that perpetuate inequality and violence.

- IV598 - November 2024 / Ecology and the Environment, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia

Nagorno-Karabakh condemned to famine in the indifference of the international community

Élodie Gavrilof — 2023-10-11T11:16:04Z

“Peace cannot be achieved under these conditions, but that is not what the Azerbaijani authorities are seeking. Their policy is intended to force Armenians in the region to leave or die.”

- IV585 - October 2023 / Armenia, Azerbaijan

“It feels like the apocalypse”

Mike Phipps — 2023-09-22T19:13:03Z

“The Russian Socialist Movement statement called on Azerbaijan to immediately cease hostilities and open negotiations without any preconditions, and on the international community to immediately impose sanctions against the leadership of Azerbaijan.”

- IV584 - September 2023 / Armenia, Azerbaijan

War and Defeat

Vicken Cheterian — 2020-12-08T10:10:39Z

Between the First Karabakh War and the Second Karabakh War there is a long period of 26 years, so many missed opportunities to resolve the conflict through negotiations. The failure should be found in the wrong beliefs, wrong ideas that led to wrong policies.

- IV551 - December 2020 / Armenia, Azerbaijan

Time for Armenian and Azerbaijani diasporas to talk to each other

Vicken Cheterian — 2020-12-08T10:06:09Z

“It is time for Armenian and Azerbaijani intellectuals living abroad to assume their responsibilities, to develop another vision and discourse and break the cycle of propaganda and the threatening danger of another war.”

- IV551 - December 2020 / Armenia, Azerbaijan

Anti-war Statement of Azerbaijani Leftist Youth

Azerbaijani Leftist Youth — 2020-10-02T07:58:51Z

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has been with us since 1988, ever since the largely ethnic Armenian population of this province of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic demanded a union with Armenia. The ensuing war ended in 1994 with Nagorno-Karabakh and some neighboring Azerbaijani territories under Armenian control and nearly a million people as refugees. Ever since then, as Azerbaijan has tried to retrieve the lost territories and the occasional negotiations proving fruitless, there have been periodic escalations of the conflict such as the Four-Day War of 2016, but never has the fighting reached the magnitude of the fighting for the last couple of days, with hundreds of soldiers (and many civilians) killed on each side. As nationalist propaganda in both countries has reached a fever pitch and the very little anti-war activity is not only drowned by vitriol but punished with arrests, LeftEast is proud to share this statement of young Azerbaijani leftists.

- IV549 - October 2020 / Azerbaijan