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AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR: WE RECOGNIZE AZERBAIJAN'S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AND ARE AWARE OF THE REAL SITUATION
APA
Nov 28 2012
Azerbaijan
Sydney. Elmin Ibrahimov-APA. Australian Ambassador to Turkey Ian
Biggs, who is also accredited to Azerbaijan and Georgia, has met with
the members of Azerbaijani and Turkish communities in Sydney.
APA reports that the parties discussed a range of issues of mutual
concern, including the recent efforts for the development of economic
and political relations between Azerbaijan and Australia, and the
opening of Azerbaijan's embassy in Canberra from early next year.
Imametdin Kassoumov, President of Azerbaijani-Australian-Turkic Unity,
brought to the attention of Mr. Ambassador the 25 October 2012 motion
moved by the Hon. Marie Ficarra on "Declaration of Independence of the
Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh Twentieth Anniversary".
The aforementioned motion has been abusively mispresented in some mass
media outlets, especially by Armenian press as the recognition by the
New South Wales of the independence of internationally unrecognized
Nagorno Karabakh, an area of a protracted, armed, fragile regional
conflict between two former Soviet Union (USSR) countries of
Azerbaijan and Armenia, which claimed over 30 000 lives and still
killing hundreds of people each year.
It has been noted that the smear lobby campaign, exercised by ANCA
here in Australia, is designed to mislay the international community,
delay peaceful negotiations process, and damage deep-rooted close
relations of Azerbaijani-Turkish community of Australia in the NSW.
Mr. Biggs hailed the opening of Azerbaijan's embassy in Canberra as a
sign of development of relations between the two countries.
As to the motion in the NSW Legislative Council, the ambassador said
he has visited Azerbaijan before and is aware of the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict, and the situation on refugees and IDPs in the country.
He added that his country recognizes Azerbaijan's territorial
integrity within its internationally recognized borders and supports
peaceful negotiations on the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict within international law.
At the end of the meeting Mr. Biggs was presented with a book,
"Unreconciled Differences: Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan" by
well-known Canadian journalist Scott Taylor.
Note that the conflict in Azerbaijan's multi-cultural southwest region
of Nagorno Karabakh erupted towards the end of Soviet rule in 1988
when Armenian military secessionists, using the chaos amid the loss of
government control, started to drive out non-Armenian ethnic groups to
proclaim an 'independent country'.
The conflict still remains one of the most dangerous, fragile unfrozen
conflicts in the post-Soviet Europe.
The UN Security Council has to date issued 4 resolutions (#822, #853,
#874, #884) on unconditional withdrawal of Armenian troops from the
occupied lands of Azerbaijan, in addition to the repeated resolutions
by the UN General Assembly and other international organizations
APA
Nov 28 2012
Azerbaijan
Sydney. Elmin Ibrahimov-APA. Australian Ambassador to Turkey Ian
Biggs, who is also accredited to Azerbaijan and Georgia, has met with
the members of Azerbaijani and Turkish communities in Sydney.
APA reports that the parties discussed a range of issues of mutual
concern, including the recent efforts for the development of economic
and political relations between Azerbaijan and Australia, and the
opening of Azerbaijan's embassy in Canberra from early next year.
Imametdin Kassoumov, President of Azerbaijani-Australian-Turkic Unity,
brought to the attention of Mr. Ambassador the 25 October 2012 motion
moved by the Hon. Marie Ficarra on "Declaration of Independence of the
Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh Twentieth Anniversary".
The aforementioned motion has been abusively mispresented in some mass
media outlets, especially by Armenian press as the recognition by the
New South Wales of the independence of internationally unrecognized
Nagorno Karabakh, an area of a protracted, armed, fragile regional
conflict between two former Soviet Union (USSR) countries of
Azerbaijan and Armenia, which claimed over 30 000 lives and still
killing hundreds of people each year.
It has been noted that the smear lobby campaign, exercised by ANCA
here in Australia, is designed to mislay the international community,
delay peaceful negotiations process, and damage deep-rooted close
relations of Azerbaijani-Turkish community of Australia in the NSW.
Mr. Biggs hailed the opening of Azerbaijan's embassy in Canberra as a
sign of development of relations between the two countries.
As to the motion in the NSW Legislative Council, the ambassador said
he has visited Azerbaijan before and is aware of the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict, and the situation on refugees and IDPs in the country.
He added that his country recognizes Azerbaijan's territorial
integrity within its internationally recognized borders and supports
peaceful negotiations on the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict within international law.
At the end of the meeting Mr. Biggs was presented with a book,
"Unreconciled Differences: Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan" by
well-known Canadian journalist Scott Taylor.
Note that the conflict in Azerbaijan's multi-cultural southwest region
of Nagorno Karabakh erupted towards the end of Soviet rule in 1988
when Armenian military secessionists, using the chaos amid the loss of
government control, started to drive out non-Armenian ethnic groups to
proclaim an 'independent country'.
The conflict still remains one of the most dangerous, fragile unfrozen
conflicts in the post-Soviet Europe.
The UN Security Council has to date issued 4 resolutions (#822, #853,
#874, #884) on unconditional withdrawal of Armenian troops from the
occupied lands of Azerbaijan, in addition to the repeated resolutions
by the UN General Assembly and other international organizations