GOVERNMENT OF AZERBAIJAN GLAD THAT US CONGRESS CANCELLED DISCUSSIONS ON SO-CALLED ‘ARMENIAN GENOCIDE’: DEPARTMENT CHIEF OF PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION

TREND News Agency, Azerbaijan
Oct 10 2007

Azerbaijan, Baku /corr. Trend K. Ramazanova / The Head of the
Social-Political Department of the Azerbaijan President’s Executive
Office, Ali Hasanov, said on 10 October that the Government of
Azerbaijan is glad that the US Congress cancelled the discussions
over the so-called ‘Armenian genocide’.

Hasanov said that the position of official Baku on this issue is
clear. "We insist that the so-called ‘Armenian genocide’ is fiction
created by the Armenians who try to use it in their favor," Mammadov
said.

Mammadov said that several large countries support Armenia as a result
of false propaganda spread by the international Armenian lobby.