Azerbaijan's Russian Community Condemned Attempts To Destabilize Situation In Region
Date
8/31/2023 5:13:45 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 31. The Republican
Council of the Russian Community of Azerbaijan has issued a
statement condemning the attempts of the Karabakh separatists to
obstruct the dialogue of Baku with its citizens of Armenian origin
and destabilize the situation in the region using the
pseudo-Russian community of Azerbaijan's Karabakh region, Trend reports.
"While the Azerbaijani government is making every effort to
establish a peaceful dialogue with its citizens of Armenian origin
living in the Khankendi city, where Russian peacekeepers are
temporarily deployed, a group of separatists continues to obstruct
this by making unfounded statements and misinforming the world
community. Once again there was an attempt to play the political
card of the pseudo-Russian community of "Nagorno-Karabakh", which
made a statement that completely contradicts the basic norms of
Azerbaijan's Constitution.
To begin with, there is no territorial unit called
"Nagorno-Karabakh" in Azerbaijan. In accordance with the Decree of
the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, the Karabakh and East
Zangezur economic regions of the country were created. And such a
notion as "Artsakh" never existed in the world, except only in the
dreams of a separate group of separatists who settled on the
territory of the sovereign Azerbaijan.
The residents of the Karabakh economic region of Armenian origin
are citizens of Azerbaijan and must live under the official laws of
our country. There is one Russian community in Azerbaijan, which
was registered by the Ministry of Justice in 1993 and which today
numbers more than 120,000 people. Our organization is recognized by
all international structures and has been active for 30 years. If
there are ethnic Russians among the Armenians of Karabakh who want
to join the Russian Community of Azerbaijan, they should contact us
to obtain membership in the organization. We are ready to respond
to their requests and provide all the necessary information to join
the organization.
In their statement, the so-called "Russian Community of
Nagorno-Karabakh" speaks of Karabakh as the historical land of
their ancestors. Karabakh has always been and remains a part of
Azerbaijan. The territorial integrity of our country has been
recognized by all countries and States, including the Russian
Federation and even Armenia itself. While claiming the hard fate of
their ancestors, the pseudo-Russian community of Karabakh forgets
that before Armenia's aggression against Azerbaijan,
representatives of all ethnic groups lived together peacefully and
amicably. Azerbaijanis, including representatives of national
minorities, were forcibly expelled from their native lands at the
time of Armenia's occupation policy. National minorities were also
forcibly expelled from Armenia itself. Today it is a mono-ethnic
state, where no one but Armenians themselves live, while in
Azerbaijan there are dozens of representatives of ethnic
groups.
The Russian Community of Azerbaijan considers such statements as
an attempt to destabilize the situation in the region, misinform
the international community and slow down the process of
integration of Karabakh Armenians into the multi-ethnic,
multicultural Azerbaijani society".
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