On September 30, 2023, Azerbaijan’s President IlhamAliyev signed an order on the allocation of funding to the United Nations Human SettlementsProgramme (UN-Habitat).
As the four children of Ruben Vardanyan we respectfully call upon the world leaders, advocates for human rights, and the media to urgent help to free our father from illegal detention in Azerbaijan. We are concerned about his health and arbitrary treatment and have not been able to communicate with him since his capture. We fear for his wellbeing and risk to his life.
The recent arrest by the government of Azerbaijan of philanthropist, businessman, Armenian citizen and co-founder of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, Ruben Vardanyan, is both outrageous and politically motivated. As members of the global humanitarian and human rights community we call for his immediate release.
The announcement is open to anyone who wants to join. Both media representatives and public figures can join.
I ask for your prayers and support for my husband’s safe release.
Azerbaijani telegram channels report that Vardanyan was arrested by Azerbaijani forces.
Delay may cost lives for Artsakh, which has already suffered incalculable human losses in recent days.
International organizations, first of all the International Committee of the Red Cross, Russian peacekeepers stationed in Artsakh should urgently open an air corridor in order to quickly bring the injured and wounded people to the RA medical institutions as a result of the recent combat operations and the catastrophic explosion that took place today in Artsakh. Stepanakert-Goris land road is terribly congested, it is almost at a standstill and there is no way to get the wounded and injured through it. And the healthcare system of Artsakh at the moment simply cannot handle and serve this whole situation. An air corridor is a dire necessity and must be launched at all costs.
Olivier Decottignies, the French ambassador to Armenia, has denied allegations that France is ready to accept and provide asylum to Armenians of Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh, the ambassador wrote on his X page.
Russia firmly stands in favor of strengthening a common cultural and educational space with Armenia, despite the attempts of individual Armenian representatives to slow down the progress of mutually beneficial projects in the humanitarian sphere.
