OSCE MINSK GROUP HAS ALWAYS HAD PRO-AZERI POSITION: CHAIRMAN OF ASSEMBLY OF ARMENIANS OF AZERBAIJAN SAYS

NOYAN TAPAN
JULY 8, 2009
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, JULY 8, NOYAN TAPAN. The Assembly of Armenians of Azerbaijan
NGO is discontent with the work of the OSCE Minsk Group, as the
Group Co-chairs from the very start ignored Armenian refugees’
interests. NGO Chairman Grigory Ayvazian stated at the July 8 press
conference adding that the Minsk Group has always had a biassed,
pro-Azeri position. "Opinions that the Armenians and Azeris should
live together in Karabakh have become frequent lately," G. Ayvazian
said and stated that it is impossible. According to him, these two
peoples can no longer live on the same land.

The representative of the Armenians of Azerbaijan added that their
organization will pursue Azerbaijan’s compensating the moral and
material damages of Armenian refugees, as well as will work in the
direction of classing as a genocide the massacres organized by the
Azeris. According to G. Ayvazian, the world should learn that the state
of Azerbaijan was created on Armenian territories, seized Gandzak,
Field Karabakh, Nakhichevan. "After all the world should learn who
is the real occupant," he said.