Azeri press Agency, Azerbaijan
Oct 11 2007

Azeri NGOs critical of US draft resolution on Armenian genocide

The Azerbaijani forum of national non-government organizations has
issued a statement in connection with the adoption of a draft
resolution on the so-called "Armenian genocide" by the US House of
Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs.

The forum says in the statement forwarded to APA news agency that the
adoption of the draft resolution has caused serious concern and
regret in the forum of national NGOs that unites 460 organizations.

"Such an unexpected and unclear step by the legislative body of a
country which is known as a stronghold of democracy and justice in
the world is a blow to the authority of the USA regionally and
worldwide.

"There is no doubt that the adoption of this resolution will damage
not just US-Turkish relations, but also US-Azerbaijani relations,
because US Congress has not reacted at all to the appeal of the
Azerbaijani Milli Maclis [parliament] regarding the Xocali genocide
which Armenia committed in front of all mankind on 26 February 1992
and which is backed up by irrefutable evidence.

"Not only is aggressive Armenia, a country that demands the
recognition of the genocide which allegedly happened in 1915, but
which in fact never happened, not punished, but on the contrary, it
has its groundless demands met."

Appealing to the US public, Congress and Senate, the forum called on
them to prevent the adoption of this resolution which runs counter to
US national interests and damages peace and stability in the region.