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The statement of the Council of Europe's Human Rights
Commissioner Dunja Mijatović regarding the peaceful protests on
Azerbaijan's Khankandi-Lachin road is regretting, Azerbaijani
Ombudsman Sabina Aliyeva said, trend reports.
She noted that Mijatović makes biased political
statements, while she is supposed to demonstrate an objective,
impartial, and fair approach.
Aliyeva noted that as she indicated in her last
statement, the peaceful civilians are seriously concerned about
Armenia's illegal exploitation of deposits of natural resources in
the territories of Azerbaijan, where the Russian peacekeeping
contingent is temporarily deployed, as well as its adverse
environmental impacts. For that reason, the members of civil
society hold peaceful action to grab the attention of the
international community to this existing danger.
'This peaceful action does not create any obstacles to
the free passage of vehicles for humanitarian aid. Furthermore,
there are no obstacles for the delivery of necessary goods and
medical care for the residents of Armenian origin of Karabakh,' she
said.
Azerbaijani Ombudsman noted that although it is
directly related to her mandate, Armenia's occupation of the
territories of Azerbaijan for nearly three decades, the genocides
against the civilian population, and the looting of cities and
villages, for some reason did not bother the Commissioner for Human
Rights of the Council of Europe. She said that the Commissioner for
Human Rights of the Council of Europe also remained indifferent to
Armenia's policy of ethnic cleansing in the historical lands of
Azerbaijan, and the loss of life and health of hundreds of
civilians as a result of firing at the densely populated civilian
objects with the use of prohibited weapons during the second
Karabakh war.
In addition, according to the Azerbaijani Ombudsman,
the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe did not
react to landmine contamination of Azerbaijan's territories during
the occupation period and aftermath, the failure of Armenia to
provide any information about the fate of nearly 4,000 missing
Azerbaijanis, and other facts of similar unlawful acts, which are
contradicted to the universal principles of international law.
'It must be noted that even today the return of
Azerbaijanis, who were displaced from their native lands about 30
years ago, to the liberated lands is delayed due to the destruction
and mine terrorism caused by Armenia during the occupation,' she
added.
Aliyeva reminded that in the UNGA Resolution
'Situation in the Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan' adopted in
2006, the issue of assessment of the impact of the fires in the
occupied territories of Azerbaijan on the ecological security of
the region was raised, as well as in the 2016 Resolution of the
Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly titled“Inhabitants of
frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water”,
the immediate withdrawal of the Armenian armed forces from the
region concerned and the provision of an on-the-spot survey by
independent engineers and hydrologists were demanded.
'I consider it is a bias to express unfounded opinions
against Azerbaijan regarding its citizens' protests against
ecoterrorism, which violates the rights of people to live in a
healthy environment, using their rights enshrined in the national
legislation and in the ECHR, by the Commissioner, who did not
respond to our repeated appeals regarding the war crimes committed
by the military and political leadership of Armenia, the serious
threat to human life caused by the mines buried during the
occupation and post-war period, and the ecocide crimes and call her
to demonstrate a neutral stand,' she said.
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