At the call of 500 associations from 17 EU countries, the Armenian community of the EU gathered at the foot of the European Commission expresses the distress of their compatriots exiled from Nagorno-Karabakh and calls on Brussels to act.
Brussels was the beating heart of Europe’s Armenian community this afternoon. A large gathering at the initiative of 500 associations from 17 countries from the four corners of the EU. They highlight the suffering of Armenians forced into exile after the blitzkrieg led by Azerbaijan. Sylvie Ordekian came from Marseille to cry out her pain and her terror at seeing the worst happen.
Baku is not ready to stop there, especially if Europe does not act, warns Franck Papazian, co-president of the Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations in France (CCAF).
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This article is originally published on radiofrance.fr
