80% OF AZERBAIJANI POPULATION SPEAKING FOR PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF AZERBAIJAN-ARMENIA CONFLICT

Today.Az
17 December 2007 [16:25]

Sahib Babayev, human rights activist and chairman of the Ganja
affiliate of the Helsinki Civil Assembly of Azerbaijan, visiting
Yerevan, announced that nearly 80% of the population of Azerbaijan
is against war with Armenia.

"Ordinary people want peace and we should change our stereotypic idea
about the enemy. We should understand that we are neighbors". S.Babayev
said.

According to the Azerbaijani human rights activist, the unification
of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia may lead to creation of a more
perfect union than EU.

"Our peoples are brought up under common traditions. We should not
walk with guns in our hands and from my part I am ready to do my best
to establish peace between our nations", Babayev noted.

The Days of Azerbaijan, within the framework of the program
"Armenia-Azerbaijan-Turkey-a step to a dialogue" started in Yerevan,
Monday.

A delegation from Azerbaijan, including human rights activists,
publicists, political scientists and experts are visiting the capital
of Armenia for participation in the event by an invitation of the
Caucasus Center of Peacekeeping Initiatives.

The Azerbaijani human rights activists and experts will take part
in the activity of the school educational and research campus in the
Mkhitar Sebastatsi educational complex of Yerevan.