APA, Azerbaijan
Feb 27 2010

Lithuanian journalist: `Liberation of Karabakh is a duty of not only
Azerbaijan, but entire world’

Baku. Victoria Dementieva ` APA. `Liberation of Nagorno Karabakh and
returning the people to their homeland is a duty of not only
Azerbaijan, but entire world’, said editor of Lithuanian newspaper
`Zvezda Lazdijai’ Richardas Lapaitis at a press conference in Baku,
APA reports. He said he visited Azerbaijan to collect evidences about
crimes committed against Azerbaijanis in Khojaly. The journalist said
he met with the officials of Republican Prosecutor’s Office and got
additional information. `I want justice and I will achieve it. I wish
all children of Khojaly and whole Karabakh to return to their homeland
and Karabakh to return to Azerbaijan’.

Lapaitis said he visited Azerbaijan just after the Khojaly tragedy in
1992 and collected materials about the atrocities committed on
February 26 and Karabakh war. The Lithuanian journalist said in 1993
he had reports about that the Armenians used chemical weapons and
bullets with changed center of gravity, but no newspaper in Lithuania
published the reports. `Only one small newspaper published that
material. After that Armenians entered our editorial office and
threatened me and my colleagues’.

Adviser to economic commission of Lithuanian Sejm Imantas Meljanas
noted that it needed to break Armenian propaganda and to inform the
people about the truth for restoration of justice and to return
occupied lands. `International law is on the side of Azerbaijan, but
information is very important. Today the word is important, but not
bullet. It needs to deliver this word correctly’.