Thank you. That's a very comprehensive and very important question.
The statements by the Artsakh president and the political and human rights defender, if he had the chance to respond, are based on the consistency of efforts to make the lives of Artsakhis impossible. There is a clear intention, which has been present in the Azerbaijani political system, to de-Armenianize Artsakh. We have seen so many statements, which I will be more than happy to provide to the honourable members of this committee and to anyone you would deem appropriate, about how they need Artsakh without Armenians, and clear rounds of aggression, starting in 1988 when there was still the Soviet Union, and in 1991 and then in 2016, and in 2020 when they went so far as to also involve international terrorists. Those are the manifestations of a clear-cut and consistent policy by Azerbaijani authorities to de-Armenianize Artsakh. They need our home without us in it, and they have been pretty vocal about that.
Unfortunately, that is the political leadership we have on the other side of the negotiations. This blockade is one of the most vivid and recent manifestations of it, and I think that has become clear for the international community and all governments pretty much, which hope there will be civilized dialogue between Artsakh and Azerbaijan. We see that, no, the only intention is to starve us to death or force us to leave.