BARONESS CAROLINE COX: KARABAKH HAS SAME RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION AS KOSOVO
13:27, 23.04.2015
Region:Armenia, Karabakh, Azerbaijan, Turkey
Theme: Politics
YEREVAN. – Baroness Caroline Cox, who is a member of the British
House of Lords, drew parallels between the Armenian Genocide and
Azerbaijan’s actions.
Cox delivered remarks Thursday at the two-day International Social
and Political Global Forum against the Crime of Genocide. This
forum is devoted to the Armenian Genocide Centennial, it is held in
Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan, and about 600 participants from
fifty countries are taking part in this event.
First, the baroness noted that she is personally sad to represent
the parliament of a country which does not recognize the Armenian
Genocide, and this is shameful, but Wales and Scotland have recognized
this genocide.
As per Baroness Cox, Azerbaijan’s objective of ousting the Armenians
from their historical homeland, Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), is another
attempt at genocide.
She noted that it is very important to realize that Artsakh has the
same right to self-determination as Kosovo, and you need to fight so
that justice prevails for Karabakh, too.
Cox added that it is indispensible to recognize the truth about the
genocide, and hiding or denying this vice means leaving the wound
without medicine so that it constantly bleeds.
Baroness Caroline Cox expressed a view that the Armenian Genocide
recognition stems also from the interests of Turkey and the Turkish
people.