AZERBAIJANI COMMUNISTS SUPPORT RUSSIA’S POSITION ON SOUTH OSSETIAN AND ABKHAZIAN ISSUE

Azeri Press Agency
Aug 29 2008
Azerbaijan

Baku. Ramil Mammadli -APA. Azerbaijan’s pro-communist parties support
the Russia’s position on the South Ossetian and Abkhazian issue. First
secretary of the Central Committee of Azerbaijan Communist Party
(Marxism-Leninism platform) Telman Nurullayev told APA that South
Ossetia and Abkhazia never were subjects of Georgian state. "During
the Soviet time Stalin united Ossetia’s southern part and Abkhazia
to Georgia.

After the collapse of USSR both regions refused to be parts of
Georgia", said Nurullayev.

He said this issue was not similar with Nagorno Karabakh conflict. "We
are against nay aggression. I don’t welcome Russia’s bourgeois
diplomacy, but Georgia had not to solve this problem by invasion. We
accept the Russia’s action as an intention to defend South Ossetian
and Abkhazian peoples".

Chairman of Azerbaijan Communist Party Alasgar Khalilov said he
positively reacted to the Russia’s recognition of South Ossetian and
Abkhazian independence. "Georgia committed slaughter in South Ossetia
and Russia prevented it. Georgians and those peoples have different
statehood history".

Chairman of Azerbaijan United Communist Party Musa Tukanov accused the
United States for the last developments. "The United States and Western
countries created new order in the world by recognizing Kosovo. Russia
is an imperialistic country, but the West is responsible for what
happened. Georgia first started military operations. What’s it,
we condemned massacre in Azerbaijan during USSR time committed
by the Soviet Army, but we didn’t condemn Georgian invasion
to South Ossetia. I don’t accept it. Georgia was wrong to start
military operations in South Ossetia. Mikhail Saakashvili played the
baby. Russia sent troops for prevention of slaughter. If Russia didn’t
support South Ossetia, it would lose respect in the world".

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress