AKHUNDOV: HITLER OCCUPIED 9% OF THE USSR WHILE ARMENIA HAS OCCUPIED 20% OF AZERBAIJAN
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
June 22 2006
The presentation ceremony of the book titled "Karabakskiy konflikt:
azerbaijanskiy vzglyad" published in Moscow by the Russian "Regnum"
New Agency was held today (APA).
Azerbaijani President’s Office sector director Fuad Akhundov addressing
the presentation, criticized the "Regnum" agency’s pan-Armenian
activity reminding that this event takes place on the same date when
the fascist Germany attacked the USSR 65 years ago.
"Hitler occupied 9 percent of the USSR while Armenia has occupied 20
percent of Azerbaijan. As the 1941-1945 war was Great Patriotic War
for the USSR peoples the Garabagh war means the same for Azerbaijanis,"
Mr.Akhundov underlined.
Commenting on the "Regnum" chief editor Konstantin Kazenin’s statement
that the aim of publishing this book is to familiarize Russian audience
with Azerbaijan’s position regarding the Nagorno Garabagh conflict,
Akhundov said, "If you want to contribute to the resolution of the
conflict, take a neutral stance."
"According to my three-month-analyze, "Regnum" has publicized 8,000
stories on Armenia and 2,000 on Azerbaijan. Most of the stories on
Azerbaijan were about the Nagorno Garabagh. This is enough to consider
the "Regnum" as pan-Armenian," the sector director said.
Criticizing the title of the book, Akhundov underlined Azerbaijan’s
position regarding the Garabagh issue bases on the international law.
He reminded that Azerbaijan supports peaceful solution of the conflict
on the basis of territorial integrity.
Akhundov also said it is not clear to him what principle was based on
while collecting the stories in the book and considered it as gross
mistake to compare the Khojali and Sumgayit events which happened in
the end of the same month.
"Armenia is a mono-national state and this is the result of Armenia’s
ethnic cleansing policy not just a natural process. The number of
people massacred by Armenians in the Azerbaijani town of Khojali is
twice more than that of the people massacred in Songmu village of
Vietnam. Armenians are living in Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan and Georgia
which border on Armenia but there is not any Turk or Azerbaijani in
Armenia," Akhundov underlined.
Reminding that Armenian Grigoryan stood behind the Sumgayit events,
Akhundov said during the investigation in Moscow, witnesses answering
the question "Who inflicted torture on you?" said "Grigoryan". The
President’s Office sector director also said he hided his Armenian
friend’s family in his home, "You cannot come across a person in
Armenia, who saved an Azerbaijani family. The former USSR authorities
used to say Azerbaijanis were deported from Armenia within two weeks
and a half."
Akhundov concluded that if it is impossible to liberate Garabagh by
peaceful way, other ways will be considered.