ASSEMBLY OF AZERBAIJANI ARMENIANS: AZERBAIJAN IS A COUNTRY ASSERTING ITSELF ON EXTERMINATION OF CITIZENS
PanARMENIAN.Net
04.12.2008 15:09 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azerbaijan is under criminal rule. Present-day
Azerbaijan is a country asserting itself on extermination of its own
citizens, said the head of Assembly of Azerbaijani Armenians NGO.
"A country which perpetrated genocide against a part of its population
has not right to claim territories," Grigory Ayvazyan told a news
conference today.
"Our Assembly has already sent a note to the Armenian Foreign Ministry
and National Assembly and received a positive feedback. We also
addressed the French Embassy in Yerevan to bring our position to the
notion of Ambassador Bernard Fassier, the Co-chair of the OSCE Minsk
Group. We demand the opinion of the Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan
be taken into account during the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement
process," he said.
"We urge compensation for the Armenians, who had to leave their homes,
or secure their return. Now, 50 of Armenians are ready to return to
Azerbaijan to prove that this country is unable to guarantee their
security and that Armenians and Azeris can’t live side by side now,"
he said.
As to referendum on Nagorno Karabakh’s status in Azerbaijan,
Mr. Ayvazyan said it won’t be legal, since Armenians who used to live
in the territory of the former Azeri SSR won’t participate in it.