news.am, Armenia
Jan 15 2010
RA Ombudsman: Refugees’ problem must remain focus of Government’s attention
14:43 / 01/15/2010The Armenian refugees’ problem must remain the focus
of the Armenian Government’s attention. On the hand, `it must not be
made a fetish of,’ which is the case in Azerbaijan, RA Ombudsman Armen
Harutyunyan stated at a function on the occasion of the 20th
anniversary of Armenian pogroms in Baku, Azerbaijan.
`We must focus our attention on the refugee problem, but we must not
lose adequate thinking ability, which taking place in Azerbaijan,’
Harutyunyan said.
He pointed out that the pogroms put an end to the 250,000-string
Armenian community in Baku, and hundreds of thousands of Armenians
were forcibly displaced from Azerbaijan. The Armenian Ombudsman
stressed that `adequate thinking’ served as a basis for the incumbent
Armenian authorities initiating the Armenia-Turkey normalization
process.
T.P.