On September 27, the Republic of Armenia petitioned the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) with a request to apply interim restraining measures against Azerbaijan.

Armenia’ demands are:

* to force Azerbaijan to stop the bombing of civilian objects along the entire line of contact between the Republic of Armenia and the Artsakh Republic

* to force Azerbaijan to refrain from non-selective offensive operations,

* to force Azerbaijan to refrain from targeting citizens, civilian objects and settlements.

International law specialist Ara Ghazaryan told Hetq that while Armenia was expected to apply to the ECHR against Azerbaijan, or vice versa, applying to the ECHR in the defense of Artsakh was something new but not totally unexpected.

Ghazaryan noted that while the demand for the application of yesterday's interim measure regarding Artsakh is a completely new formulation, it’s in fact a legal expression of Pashinyan’s statement that "Artsakh is Armenia, period."

"It simply came to our notice then. I do not know whether it has been contemplated whether this will lead to a change in the political arena. Being a new formulation, a very original solution is offered. You are entering a field that is completely different from the last eighteen years, if we take it specifically in terms of the ECHR,” said Ghazaryan.

Ghazaryan notes that in the case of "Chiragov and Others v. Armenia", it was said that Armenia directly or indirectly controls the territory of Artsakh. Now, Armenia is saying the same herself.