GANIRA PASHAYEVA: "DEVELOPMENTS IN ARMENIA INCREASE TENSIONS IN THE REGION"

APA
Jan 27 2009
Azerbaijan

Strasbourg. Alexander Kin-APA. "Unfortunately our Armenian colleagues
aggressively react to the speeches of Azerbaijani parliamentarians
in the discussions on the situation in Armenia, situation of the
democratic institutions and organizations and commitments undertaken
by Armenia to the Council of Europe", said Azerbaijani parliamentarian
Ganira Pashayeva in her speech at the PACE session, APA correspondent
reports from Strasbourg.

She said Azerbaijan, rather than other members of the Council of
Europe, concern over the developments in Armenia. "This country
keeps 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s territory under occupation for more
than 15 years and continues to trample on the rights of one million
Azerbaijani refugees and displaced persons tackling them to return
home. We have to seriously think over the developments in Armenia,
because it increases tensions in the region. There is no progress in
the negotiations over the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh problem
because of non-constructive position of Armenian government. Armenian
armed forces fired on the peaceful residents of Azerbaijan from the
posts they set in the occupied Azerbaijani lands, killed and wounded
with sniper’s bullets. They commit arsons in the Azerbaijani lands and
enjoy with it when the fire covers houses and farms of Azerbaijani
people. Recently I invited the French, Norwegian, Israeli, Chinese,
Indian and other ambassadors to bordering Tovuz Region, where I run
for the Parliament, and they witnessed how the Azerbaijani cemeteries
were burned by the Armenian armed forces in the border areas. The
ambassadors strongly condemned these actions".

Ganira Pashayeva said Armenia refused to fulfill PACE resolutions
1609 and 1620 adopted in the spring session. "Opposition leaders
were arrested in quarters in Armenia, the arrested oppositionists
were not released yet and originators of March 1 events were not
punished. During the hearings at the US Congress Helsinki Commission
on the elections and March events in Armenia, one of the Congressmen
said that he was horrified with the anti-Semitism in Armenia. We
were emphasizing, for many years, the Armenia’s mono-ethnic policy
and expelling hundred thousands of Azerbaijanis from their homes with
force and tortures. We have to think about the developments in Armenia
seriously and to pass serious decisions. We have not to forget that
any unpunished crime will arise other one".