1. The Occupied Territories

As a result of predatory actions of the Armenian military forces supported by the separatist Armenian formations of the upper Karabakh more than 20% of territory of Azerbaijan is captured, more than 700 inhabited localities, among them 215 in the mountainous part of Karabakh burned and destroyed. There are great ravages far from the borders of mountainous part of Karabakh: in Akstafa, Kazakh, Kedabek regions and also Sadarak region of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic.

The number of occupied inhabited localities of the Azerbaijani Republic is more than 700, the total number of displaced persons is more than 1 million people.

More than 20% of the territory of Azerbaijan is occupied. The area of occupied territories is 17.000 sq. km.

2. Refugees and displaced persons forced to leave their places of permanent residence

In connection with well-known events are more than 1 million refugees and displaced persons in the Republic including 200 thousand people- forcibly displaced from mountainous part of Karabakh, bordering regions and surrounding regions; 25958 people (5723 families) are still living in sky. 264211 refugees and displaced persons are able to work. 158211 of them are unemployed. According to their social status about 20,0 thousand women, more than 160 thousand people and more than 110 thousand are children under school age.

3. Ethnic cleansing of Azerbaijan people from Armenian agression

The policy of ethnic cleansing carried out by the Republic of Armenia has resulted in killed 18.000 killed civilians, mostly elderly people, women and children. The number of hostages taken by the Armenians and missing persons exceeds 4000, among them 320 women, 173 elderly persons (above 60) and 71 children. They are kept in various places, investigotary chambers in Khankendi, National Security Ministry in Armenia and in private houses.

The concern on mass violations of human rights, in particular in the form of genocide and ethnic cleansing, was expressed in the final document of the world conference on human rights held in Vienna on October 14-25, 1993. These caused exodus of refugees and displaced persons. The conference called on punishment of those guilty of committing such crimes and the immediately stopping of this practice.

One of the most terrible crimes commited against Azerbaijani people was the tragedy of Khojaly town, captured by the Armenian forces in February 1992. As the result of this barbarous act of vandalism the number of residents of this town killed and frozen to death exceeded more than one thousand. The terrible outrage upon bodies of dead people took place. The majority of perished were women, elderly people and children. These facts are evidence by the Republic of Armenia towards Azerbaijani people.

All the territories of the Azerbaijani Republic, occupied by the Armenian forces have been ethnically cleansed of Azerbaijani people.

4. Damage to Azerbaijan inflected by the aggression of the Republic of Armenia

Total damage including destruction and appropriation of the social basic funds and personal property of the citizens is appraised at hundreds million dollars. More than six thousand industrial and construction organizations have been destroyed. More than 107 thousand inhabited buildings, three thousand establishments of the social and cultural meaning, 500 medical establishments, inhabited environment 1/5 population of Republic has been destroyed.

5. Destruction of the cultural and historical monuments of Azerbaijan formations

The destruction of the cultural and historical monuments of Azerbaijan going on. These were taken under the state protection 208 monuments of history, architecture, archaeology in Shusha town, by directive bodies of the Republic. Taking into account the great historical and cultural meaning of the monuments of the history and culture of Shusha town, the government of Azerbaijan in its resolutions N 280 of 10.08.77 declared historically established part of Shusha town as the state historical and architectural reserve. The Armenian forced after Shusha’s usurpation plundered and destroyed movzoley and monument to M. P. Vagif, museum to Uzeyir Gadjibekov, Bul-Bul, historicolanding, the part of carpet museum and of national applied art museum, cemetery and other monuments. Situation can be obsered in all other parts of Karabakh

6. The damage inflicted environment as the result of aggression by the republic of Armenia.

Biological situation

Non-halting hostilities with the use of heavy and rocket artillery, air bombardments resulted in destruction of the soil cover, the forests and vegetation and also the rare animals noted down in ‘Red Book`. The greater part of four state nature reserves are functioning or situated in the zone of combat activities. The total damage to the natural environment is evaluated 1 billion dollars.

The convention ‘About war victim’s protection’ adopted by International Community and Additional Protocol to the Convention adopted in 1978. ‘On prohibition military or any hostile use of mean of affection on the nature’ and also in other Agreements and Conventions such actions are regarded as an international crime.