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CANBERRA: Member of North Sydney, Trent Zimmerman MP has delivered an impassioned plea in Australia's Federal Parliament for the international community "not to sit back and hope that the parties will themselves come together but to actively intervene and tell the Azerbaijanis that their actions today simply are unacceptable", reported the Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC-AU).

The co-convenor of the Australia-Armenia Inter-Parliamentary Union (Friendship Group) used an adjournment address in the Federation Chamber to deliver his assessment on Azerbaijan's Turkey-backed attacks on the Armenian Republics of Artsakh and Armenia, which began on 27th September and continue to today.

Zimmerman called out Baku's autocratic regime of Ilham Aliyev for the aggression that has led to the biggest outbreak of the Armenia-Artsakh-Azerbaijan War since the internationally-brokered ceasefire in 1994.

"The most important reason why Australians should care about this conflict in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, or Artsakh, is that we know that if the Azerbaijani government prevails, the world will witness ethnic cleansing, which will put the livelihoods and, in fact, the lives of hundreds of thousands of residents in Nagorno-Karabakh at threat," he said.

"There can be no doubt that these actions, which have been long foreshadowed by the President of Azerbaijan, have one goal in mind—that is, to see every person of Armenian heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh, or Artsakh, forced from their homes, forced from their traditional lands and forced out of that country, one way or the other."

Zimmerman added: "The international community must get involved. It must put pressure on the Azerbaijani government to stop its activities. Of course, they say in war the first loss is that of truth, but the reality is that Armenia had nothing to gain and a hell of a lot to lose by military action against Azerbaijan. So I, therefore, respectfully suggest that this conflict is the result of Azerbaijani actions. It has, as I said earlier, long been the goal of the Azerbaijani president to reclaim by force these territories."

The Chair of the Australian Parliament's House of Representatives Committee on Health, Sport & Ageing then turned his attention on the dictatorship of Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, who has assisted self-confessed "two states, one nation" partner Azerbaijan through the deployment of Ankara-backed Islamist jihadist mercenaries from Syria and air support.

"What particularly concerns me is that we have seen other players get involved, particularly the Turkish government and its allies within its community. That has seen, at best, the Turkish government provide moral support for Azerbaijani actions. At worst, there is growing evidence that we are actually seeing Turkish interests supporting the military operations that are underway, potentially including the use of mercenaries from Syria," he said.