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It was the first-ever hearing in Nagorno Karabakh conflict-related cases at a European court, another opportunity to prove to the international community with Armenian party’s substantiated arguments that Azerbaijan’s policy and diplomacy are forged, besides, Armenia is again able to present the essence of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and Azerbaijan’s vain efforts to misrepresent the conflict to the world. And all this is done through hearings on simultaneously two complaints filed at the European Court of Human Rights.

As you know, one of the complaints was filed by the family of Minas Sargsyan, former resident of the village of Gyulistan, Shahumyan region of NKR, the other by Azeri Chiragov family which formerly resided in the Lachin region. The details of the hearings held in Strasbourg have been already publicized. Yet, the accents and competently substantiated legal arguments the Armenian party presented during the two hearings are much more important. In difference to Azerbaijani party’s arguments, European Court experts accepted Armenian party’s arguments as serious foundations.

At the end of the court hearings it was already clear that our mission at the European Court of Human Rights, to all appearances, would yield positive results, and the verdict would be in favor of the Armenian party. In any case, we expect it, taking into consideration Armenian party’s fair and substantiated legal arguments. Even if the European Court tries to use equal standards towards the Armenian and Azerbaijani parties when pronouncing the verdict, it cannot deny the counterbalance of the arguments presented, since already during the hearings it was clear that Azerbaijan’s substantiations hardly play the role of “substantiations” there.