West Azerbaijan Community Responds To Council Of Europe Secretary General's
Date
7/31/2023 2:56:25 AM
(MENAFN- AzerNews) The West Azerbaijan Community (WAC) has expressed serious
concern that the Council of Europe supports Armenia's fraudulent
propaganda and demonstrates double standards, Azernews reports, citing WAC.
In response to Council of Europe Secretary General Marija
Pejcinovic-Buric's biased statement of July 28 on the topic of
supplying residents of Armenian origin living in the Karabakh
region of Azerbaijan, the community noted that the issue is an
absurdity created by Armenia to mislead the international
community.
"A group of separatist criminals, at the behest of Armenia, is
blocking roads from other regions of Azerbaijan to
Armenian-populated areas in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and
demanding an exclusive route for uncontrolled supplies from
Armenia. Armenia, desperately seeking a way to supply its
10,000-strong military contingent in the Karabakh region of
Azerbaijan, is trying to blackmail Azerbaijan, weaken Azerbaijan's
sovereignty over the said territory and strengthen separatist
tendencies there. In this regard, it is regrettable that Armenia's
tall tales about 'humanitarian crisis' were reflected in the latest
statement of the Council of Europe," the structure emphasized.
The West Azerbaijan Community, which includes hundreds of
thousands of Azerbaijanis who suffered from ethnic cleansing by
Armenia, strongly condemns the double standards and hypocrisy of
the Council of Europe, which ignores the suffering of nearly one
million Azerbaijanis forcibly expelled from Armenia and the
liberated territories of Azerbaijan in the late 1980s and early
1990s. It is mentioned that Armenia still denies the right of
Western Azerbaijanis, victims of mass expulsion and ethnic
cleansing, to return to their ancestral lands.
"The fact that the Council of Europe, which positions itself as
a "defender of human rights", against the background of
indifference to the rights of hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis
subjected to Armenia's policy of ethnic cleansing, immediately
draws attention to the mentioned false "humanitarian crisis", shows
its bias. This contradicts the goals and principles set out in the
Council's Charter, the European Convention on Human Rights and the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Council of Europe should actively protect the rights of the
exiled Azerbaijanis to return to their homes in Armenia and
contribute to the elimination of the injustice committed against
them.
We call on the Council of Europe to reconsider its position,
reject Armenia's false propaganda, put an end to its bias and
discrimination against Azerbaijanis and maintain its commitment to
justice," the statement of the West Azerbaijan Community reads.
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