Pressure group urges NATO to stop inviting Armenians to Azeri events
Assa-Irada
29 Oct 04
Baku, 28 October: The Karabakh Liberation Organization [KLO] appealed
to NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer today. In making
attempts to attend Baku-hosted NATO events, Armenia has been trying
to impede Azerbaijani-NATO relations and create confrontation and
tension in this country, the appeal reads. It says that the presence
at any event in Azerbaijan of representatives of Armenia, which
committed the Xocali genocide [massacre in Karabakh town in 1992],
killed thousands of Azerbaijanis and holds a lot of our compatriots
in captivity, is inadmissible.
The KLO regards the Armenians’ presence at the events in Azerbaijan
as an offence to the entire Azerbaijani people and the spirit of
the martyrs. Given the aforesaid, the KLO demands that NATO end the
practice of inviting Armenia to Baku-hosted events.