Baku / 09.02.19 / Turan: The Armenians of Georgia made a response statement after Friday's rally of local Azerbaijanis in Tbilisi protesting against the installation of a bust to terrorist Avagian in Georgia"s Armenian village of Bugashen.

Avagyan fought in Karabakh and was involved in the killings of Azerbaijani civilians.

"Recently, the Azerbaijani community has raised a lot of noise around the installation and renovation of the monument to the native of the village of Bugashen, Mikhail Avagyan. If the installation of a monument to a native of this village can make such a noise, then we demand that the national hero of Azerbaijan Jalil Safarov, who is a member of the Karabakh war, be dismantled in the village of Lezhbadin (Marneuli), the text of the statement by Rusarminfo cites.

Jalil Safarov served in the Azerbaijani army as a career officer. At the age of 30 he died heroically in the defense of the village of Turshsu near the town of Shusha on May 15, 1992, he was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Azerbaijan. His monument was erected in his native village Lezhbaddin n in the Marneuly region of Georgia.

Official Tbilisi keeps silence. Georgian public figures made various and contradictory statements.

The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry made a sharp statement about the inadmissibility of installing a bust on the territory of a friendly state to a member of illegal armed groups who fought on the territory of Azerbaijan. – 0-