BAKU: Azerbaijan Community Of Nagorno-Karabakh Urges US State Depart

AZERBAIJAN COMMUNITY OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH URGES US STATE DEPARTMENT

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
April 24 2007

"Azerbaijani community of Nagorno-Karabakh" Public Union’s chief
Nizami Bahmanov sent a protest letter to Anne Derse, US Ambassador
to Azerbaijan on the changes to the initial 2006 State Department
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Public Union told APA that
the fact of changes to the paper is nothing but indifference to the
violation of rights of 700 thousand IDPs and especially of 62 thousand
population of occupied Nagorno Karabakh. The letter states "It is not
understandable how the country aspiring to keep peace world-wide and
defend human rights is influenced by Armenian organizations which have
links with terrorists. This amendment on the report overshadows the
territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and we appreciate it as support
for Nagorno Karabakh separatist regime," the letter reads.

Azerbaijan community of Karabakh demanded US as one of the co-chairs
of OSCE Minsk Group to hold fair position and republish the report
in the initial edition.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS