TAAL Calls for the Resignation of UN Secretary Guterres

Truth And Accountability League (TAAL) Calls for the Resignation of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres

TAAL Seeks the Resignation of Secretary Guterres for Facilitating the Artsakh Genocide, Refusal to Apply UN Laws to Azerbaijan’s Campaigns of Hate, Violence, and Disinformation Against the Armenian People, and Failure to Free the Armenian Hostages Held Illegally in Azerbaijan

Excellency Mr. Fu Cong, President of the UN Security Council,

Truth And Accountability League (TAAL), a human rights advocacy organization, promotes ethics and integrity in world leaders and agencies. Toward this end, we request the immediate resignation of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres based on his repeated failures as a leader to act decisively to stop recent genocides, his practice of cronyism when applying UN policies and procedures, and his reward of rogue nations and regimes that have committed crimes against humanity.

Secretary General Guterres has been a lame duck and has disregarded his obligations at every turn, costing thousands of lives worldwide.

Complacency

As the UN state of Azerbaijan, with help from UN states of Turkiye, Russia, and Israel, and hired jihadist mercenaries from Syria, Libya, and Pakistan invaded the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), Secretary Guterres was complicit.

Bothsideism and False-Balance

While Azerbaijan released the monstrous firepower of humanity’s latest, most sophisticated battlefield technology, including illegal and banned weapons supplied by nations above, massacred 5,000+ indigenous Armenians, and occupied 90% of Artsakh, Secretary Guterres was spewing dangerous and toxic bothsideism rhetoric by stating ‘both sides have the obligation, under international humanitarian law, to take utmost care to spare and protect civilians and civilian infrastructure in the conduct of military operations.’

Evading

When starting on December 12, 2022, Azerbaijan blockaded Artsakh in an attempt to force the Armenians to flee their native lands and take over the region. Aliyev’s government ordered a group of fake self-styled environmental activists to set up a roadblock on the Lachin corridor, the sole overland route linking Artsakh with Armenia. Many of these so-called activists were later revealed to be connected with the Azerbaijani government. In the next nine months, Azerbaijan attempted to starve Armenians and drive them out of Artsakh, while Secretary Guterres left the matter to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), a court that only provides legal opinions, called ‘advisory procedures, a gesture reminiscent of Pontius Pilate ‘washing his hands. ’ICJ does not and cannot stop an ongoing genocide.

Whitewashing Genocide

Following Azerbaijan’s illegal, cruel, and inhumane blockade of Artsakh that deprived the region’s 120,000 civilians, including 30,000 children, of food, medicine, and other necessities for more than nine months, on September 19th Azerbaijan launched an unprovoked military offensive on Artsakh in an attempt to subjugate the region’s ethnically Armenian population by force. Following a 24-hour assault that saw the displacement of several thousand civilians and more than 200 deaths, Artsakh’s authorities chose to disarm to avoid further bloodshed. The remaining 120,000 Armenians fled to Armenia as refugees. Through all this, Secretary Guterres and his UN team were whitewashing the Artsakh Genocide and the ethnic cleansing of indigenous Armenians from their historic homeland of millennia.

Reward, Enable, Embolden

During the Artsakh Genocide, Azerbaijan abducted several Armenian soldiers, civilians, and political leaders. Azerbaijan is currently confirmed to be holding at least 23 Armenian hostages. The actual figure may be as high as 100. The 23 Armenian hostages currently held in Azerbaijani jails are victims of an ongoing genocide, not terrorists. Their detention follows systematic persecution and forced displacement of Armenians from Artsakh, actions that align with the legal definition of genocide as outlined in the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Méndez, 2023). These individuals have been falsely accused and labeled as terrorists to delegitimize their suffering and deflect international attention from Azerbaijan’s deliberate policy of erasing Armenian presence and heritage in the region. Far from being combatants or threats, they are civilians and democratically elected leaders who were targeted precisely because of their Armenian identity. By criminalizing them, Azerbaijan seeks to obscure its genocidal actions and justify its broader campaign of ethnic cleansing and cultural erasure. While Azerbaijan continues to break international law, including UN laws, policies, and procedures, Secretary Guterres is mum.

Instead of being a leader while human beings are suffering, Secretary Guterres disregarded International law and rewarded Aliyev by hosting its climate conference, COP29, in the authoritarian state. Allowing a totalitarian country to host a United Nations event constitutes deliberate complicity by the UN and participating nations in the genocidal acts perpetrated against the Armenian nation by the Azerbaijani government, the propagation of falsified historical narratives, the misappropriation and erasure of the cultural and religious heritage of the Armenian people, and the policy of deceit by the Azerbaijani leadership to gain support from international organizations and governments to achieve its goal of the ‘Final Solution’ to the existence of Armenia.

Deafening Silence Toward Injustice

The 23 hostages are being forced to endure sham trials in Azerbaijan, a genocidal dictatorship that weaponizes a corrupt legal system as a means of political and societal control. These trials - based on fabricated charges - serve as a platform for the ruling Aliyev regime to bolster a Nationalist agenda denying all accountability while appropriating the actual trauma and tragedy lived by victims, denying well-documented genocide while casting the blame on the victims themselves of the very atrocities they have endured.

United Nations or Select Nations?

It is not enough for the UN to discuss international law principles; it must enforce them uniformly across all nations. Rogue nations such as Azerbaijan, with vast fossil fuel, should not be given a pass by the UN. Otherwise, it undermines the UN and damages the credibility of the Climate Change Conference.

The United Nations’ response to the Artsakh Genocide was nothing short of a ‘carte blanche’ for Azerbaijan to commit its calculated crimes against humanity by annihilating the indigenous Armenians of Artsakh from their ancestral homeland through slaughter, starvation, and terror.

Today, the UN stands at a crossroads that will determine whether it caters to criminal states or continues to uphold some of its most relevant foundational principles, such as ensuring the protection of human rights, environmental responsibility, and anti-corruption policies. These policies stand in stark contrast with the UN’s silence about the sham trials in Azerbaijan.

What will the United Nations’ legacy be if Secretary Guterres continues his flawed and ineffective approach? Will the UN need to exist once it formally establishes itself as a corruptible entity complicit in upholding governments that engage in the very heinous crimes that it was established to protect nations from? 

We have lost all confidence in Secretary-General António Guterres’ ability to ensure that the UN is not actively supporting terror states, facilitating and whitewashing genocides, and enabling human rights violations. The League of Nations, the predecessor of the UN was established in 1919, as the first global organization charged with promoting international cooperation and peace.  Should this Secretary General of the UN, Antonion Gutierrez, be allowed to obliterate the mission and legacy of the long-standing humanitarian organization?  Should the UN stand by its own wrecking agent? Therefore, we unequivocally and vehemently advocate for the removal or forced resignation of António Guterres as the UN Secretary-General.

Sincerely,

Vic Gerami

Founder and Chair

Truth And Accountability League (TAAL)

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