Ambassador: Armenia expects Japan to condemn unlawful actions of Azerbaijan

The Japan-Armenia Friendship Association (JAFA) on Sunday organized a presentation of photos taken in the Berdzor (Lachin) corridor by Japanese photojournalist Makio Matsumura, informed the embassy of Armenia in Japan.

Matsumura visited Armenia last October and personally photographed the flow of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) refugees to Armenia through the Berdzor corridor.

Addressing the audience, Armenian Ambassador Areg Hovhannisian thanked JAFA and Hideharu Nakajima for organizing this exhibition and for standing with Armenia in difficult times.

"What Mr. Matsumura recorded in his photos and presented to us was the inability of current international order and mechanisms to make certain states to act according to international law," noted the ambassador, and added that pursuant to Azerbaijan's international obligations, the Berdzor corridor must have been functional to this day.

Hovhannisian  noted, that Armenia expects that the democratic world, which Japan is part of, will condemn the unlawful actions of Azerbaijan and thus contribute to peace in South Caucasus.

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