Lawmakers say gas and oil imports into EU should be blocked if Baku moves against Armenia.
The European Parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution condemning Azerbaijan and the EU’s handling of the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis, two weeks after Baku launched a lightning strike into the enclave, forcing 100,000 people to flee.
The resolution, which mentions “a gross violation of human rights and international law” and “unjustified military attack,” was adopted by an overwhelming majority of all groups: 491 MEPs voted in favor, with only nine against and 36 abstentions.
Lawmakers called for the EU and its member countries to urgently reassess the bloc’s ties with Azerbaijan and pushed to suspend “all imports of oil and gas from Azerbaijan to the EU in the event of military aggression against Armenian territorial integrity or … attacks against Armenia’s constitutional order and democratic institutions.”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in 2022 signed an agreement to double purchases of Azerbaijani gas by 2027.
“The European Parliament is taking the gravity of the situation seriously by demanding an end to all imports of Azerbaijani gas and oil, now the Council and the Commission must finally act,” said François-Xavier Bellamy, a French conservative MEP, who supports Armenia.
Renew, the centrist group that also pushed for the resolution, said in statement that the EU and its member countries should now “increase both their presence on the ground and the humanitarian aid to people displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia or living in Nagorno-Karabakh.” However, the resolution did not win the support from one of its senior members, Bulgarian MEP Ilhan Kyuchyuk, who hails from his country’s ethnic Turkish party.
Lawmakers also wanted Azerbaijani officials to be sanctioned, even if EU countries will probably ignore the MEPs’ demand.
You can consider Azerbaijan’s Timbers, Shivered. What does a condemnation DO, while still buying Azeri gas i don’t get it. This whole thing could’ve been avoided if any European leaders had actual balls and were not afraid to use them
They have gas, surely they are good people.
Misleading title. There is a key sentence in the resolution:
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***Lawmakers called for the EU and its member countries to urgently reassess the bloc’s ties with Azerbaijan and pushed to suspend “all imports of oil and gas from Azerbaijan to the EU in the event of military aggression against Armenian territorial integrity or … attacks against Armenia’s constitutional order and democratic institutions.”***
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The above has not happened.
Awww they’re trembling from that strongly worded letter. Shacking!
Significant that the EU Parliament considers what happened to be ethnic cleansing:
> expresses its
solidarity with the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh who have been **forced to flee** their
homes and ancestral lands; considers that the current situation **amounts to ethnic
cleansing** and strongly condemns the threats and acts of violence committed by
Azerbaijani troops against the population of Nagorno-Karabakh;
Von der Leyen is a traitor to Europe. Corrupt and in the pocket of every dictatorship and multi national company.
>in the event of military aggression
So, this recent thing wasn’t it, right? Got it. So oil and gas imports are safe.
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Lawmakers say gas and oil imports into EU should be blocked if Baku moves against Armenia.
The European Parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution condemning Azerbaijan and the EU’s handling of the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis, two weeks after Baku launched a lightning strike into the enclave, forcing 100,000 people to flee.
The resolution, which mentions “a gross violation of human rights and international law” and “unjustified military attack,” was adopted by an overwhelming majority of all groups: 491 MEPs voted in favor, with only nine against and 36 abstentions.
Lawmakers called for the EU and its member countries to urgently reassess the bloc’s ties with Azerbaijan and pushed to suspend “all imports of oil and gas from Azerbaijan to the EU in the event of military aggression against Armenian territorial integrity or … attacks against Armenia’s constitutional order and democratic institutions.”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in 2022 signed an agreement to double purchases of Azerbaijani gas by 2027.
“The European Parliament is taking the gravity of the situation seriously by demanding an end to all imports of Azerbaijani gas and oil, now the Council and the Commission must finally act,” said François-Xavier Bellamy, a French conservative MEP, who supports Armenia.
Renew, the centrist group that also pushed for the resolution, said in statement that the EU and its member countries should now “increase both their presence on the ground and the humanitarian aid to people displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia or living in Nagorno-Karabakh.” However, the resolution did not win the support from one of its senior members, Bulgarian MEP Ilhan Kyuchyuk, who hails from his country’s ethnic Turkish party.
Lawmakers also wanted Azerbaijani officials to be sanctioned, even if EU countries will probably ignore the MEPs’ demand.
You can consider Azerbaijan’s Timbers, Shivered. What does a condemnation DO, while still buying Azeri gas i don’t get it. This whole thing could’ve been avoided if any European leaders had actual balls and were not afraid to use them
They have gas, surely they are good people.
Misleading title. There is a key sentence in the resolution:
​
***Lawmakers called for the EU and its member countries to urgently reassess the bloc’s ties with Azerbaijan and pushed to suspend “all imports of oil and gas from Azerbaijan to the EU in the event of military aggression against Armenian territorial integrity or … attacks against Armenia’s constitutional order and democratic institutions.”***
​
The above has not happened.
Awww they’re trembling from that strongly worded letter. Shacking!
Significant that the EU Parliament considers what happened to be ethnic cleansing:
> expresses its
solidarity with the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh who have been **forced to flee** their
homes and ancestral lands; considers that the current situation **amounts to ethnic
cleansing** and strongly condemns the threats and acts of violence committed by
Azerbaijani troops against the population of Nagorno-Karabakh;
Von der Leyen is a traitor to Europe. Corrupt and in the pocket of every dictatorship and multi national company.
>in the event of military aggression
So, this recent thing wasn’t it, right? Got it. So oil and gas imports are safe.
It wasn’t an attack.
Azerbaijan took back what was always theirs.