THE PROBLEM OF RETURN OF REFUGEES AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN THE EVOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE KARABAKH CONFLICT

Abstract

The prupose of the article is to discuss the issue of the return of forced displaced persons, including refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), in the context of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, combining with the principles of international law. In the negotiation process on Nagorno-Karabakh, the provisions on the “return of refugees”, despite interesting metamorphoses, “bypassed” more than 800,000 Armenian refugees and internally displaced persons of 1988-94, “serving” only the Azerbaijani policy of artificially inflating the number of IDPs. In the course of study of the issues posed within the article, individual (personal) or special methods - legal-comparative, analytical, statistical, systemic, as well as general scientific, such as dialectical, logical, historical methods were used. The result of the research is the conclusion that it is necessary to learn lessons from the “Azerbaijani experience” of the refugee return policy in order to solve the problem of the return of more than 25% of the Artsakh population, who have the IDP status due to the aggression of Azerbaijan in 2020.