ILHAM ALIYEV: WE ARE CLOSE TO RELEASE OUR TERRITORIES, THEREFORE ARMENIANS COMMIT ARSONS
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Nov 15 2006
"20% of the Azerbaijani territories were occupied by Armenia. The
situation in the occupied territories is very bad. The forces occupied
the Azerbaijani territories not only destroyed our historical,
national, religious monuments but also damaged our nature," Azerbaijan
President said during his speech in the presentation ceremony of the
prize set by Michael Zukov Fund of Germany.
The President said the nature was damaged, precious trees were cut,
and arsons were committed in the occupied territories.
"We have irrefutable facts. OSCE fact-finding mission held a monitoring
in the occupied territories. The report they made is very terrible,
everything, buildings, historical monuments were destroyed, precious
trees were cut. As a result of it several large furniture plants
function at the moment," the President said.
Ilham Aliyev said that Armenians realize that they will leave our
lands; we are close to release our territories, therefore they commit
arsons. He said they raised this problem on the level of UN. We ask
all organizations and NGO to pay attention to this problem.
Committing arsons in the occupied territories is unbearable fact;
these actions cannot be made by the people living in the XXI century.