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    LETTER OF RA'S PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE ON OCCASION ON ANNIVERSARY OF SUMGAYIT AND BAKU TRAGIC EVENTS SPREAD IN UN

    Noyan Tapan
    Feb 24, 2010

    NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 24, NOYAN TAPAN. On the occasion of Sumgayit and
    Baku tragic events, massacres committed against the Armenian population
    the letter of RA Permanent Representative, Ambassador Karen Nazarian
    addressed to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was spread as that
    organization's official document.

    The letter referring to international community's disorientation
    aimed at the cheap agitation and false facts constantly spread by
    the Azeri government mentioned that Azerbaijan continues presenting
    itself as a victim of the so-called "Armenian aggression" for that
    purpose misrepresenting not only the tragic events well-known to the
    world but also former citations of Azeri sources.

    K. Nazarian, in particular, cities former Azeri President Ayaz
    Mutalibov's well-knwon interview where speaking about Khojalu's events
    the latter describes how Azerbaijan's opposition and militia hindered
    withdrawal of the civil population from the zone of operations through
    the mountainous corridor. The opposition hoped to achieve power in
    Baku through the massacre of its very compatriots. The letter also
    cited the 1992 September report of the The Helsinki Watch organization
    which mentioned the evidence of the very Azeris about Azeri militia's
    firing at the flying off civil population.

    The letter also emphasized that the international community has
    repeatedly confirmed many barbarities carried out by Azerbaijan's
    government to the defenseless Armenian population. "In response to
    Nagorno Karabakh people's peaceful and constitutional demand of using
    its right of self-determination the Azeri authorities organized and
    armed the crowd which in 1988 committed a slaughter to the Armenians
    living in the town of Sumgayit. This massacre was the first case of
    mass murders in the territory of Soviet Union which was correspondingly
    fixed in the legal cases. Azerbaijan immediately after proclaiming its
    independence released the convicted murderers and publicly proclaimed
    them national heroes. The Helsinki Watch organization's report is
    evidence that the events had a goal to intimidate the Armenians living
    in Azerbaijan's other regions."

    According to the RA Foreign Ministry Press and Information Department,
    K. Nazarian also mentioned that the massacres committed in 1988-1991
    in Gandzak, Azerbaijan's other towns were more than mass and
    barbaric and resulted in extermination and deportation of half a
    million Armenians. These cruelties were followed by unprecedented
    aggressive actions of the Azeri armed forces aimed at Nagorno Karabakh
    population's extermination.

    The letter of Armenia's Ambassador which is also addressed to the UN
    Security Council and General Assembly is concluded by the following
    thought: "It should be finally and once and for all become clear that
    Azerbaijan started the armed aggression against Nagorno Karabakh.

    Armenia is convinced that the best solution in this situation is the
    restoration of Nagorno Karabakh people's legal demand to exercise
    the inviolable right of nations for self-determination."
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