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AZERI PRESSURE GROUP CALLS FOR DEPORTING ARMENIAN EX-MINISTER
APA
Nov 22 2012
Azerbaijan
[Translated from Azeri]
An Azerbaijani pressure group has called for immediate deportation
of Armenian ex-foreign minister Raffi Hovhannisyan, leader of the
Heritage party, over the remarks he made at a Baku forum concerning
the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict.
The Karabakh Liberation Organization has described the visit of the
Armenian politician to Baku to participate in an Asian international
conference as "unacceptable", the APA news agency reported on 22
November.
"Immediately upon his arrival to Baku, Raffi Hovhannisyan has
not refrained from expressing his position and making shameless
assertions. He said he regarded Sumqayit as an Armenian city and
rejected the fact of the occupation of Nagornyy Karabakh. On our part
we will use any means for the immediate deportation of the shameless
representative of aggressor Armenia from the country," the news agency
quoted the organization's statement as saying.
Meanwhile, Ali Ahmadov, deputy chairman and executive secretary of
the ruling New Azerbaijan Party, has said that Hovhannisyan's remarks
are out of touch with the standpoint of the international community.
"Regardless of what the former Armenian foreign minister says, the
UN, major European bodies, the international community, including the
OSCE, which is tackling settlement of the conflict, and its co-chairs
have repeatedly voiced the fact that Azerbaijani lands have been
occupied. In addition, they have explicitly said that they recognize
Azerbaijan's territorial integrity. I believe all of this confirms
that the imprudent statement made by the former Armenian foreign
minister is completely groundless," APA quoted Ahmadov as saying.
Turan news agency quoted Hovhannisyan's remarks at a press conference
in Baku. Hovhannisyan said that using terms like "occupation" is
ill-advised. "To follow this logic, a large part of Armenian lands
is also under the occupation of Turkey and Azerbaijan," he said. He
said that "Azerbaijan's aggression against residents of Karabakh"
was the cause of the conflict.
"I realize the problems of 700,000 Azerbaijani refugees and the rights
of 400,000 Armenian refugees evicted from Baku and Sumqayit. They all
have the right to return to their lands, including Azerbaijanis to
independent Nagornyy Karabakh and Armenians to Turkey," the agency
quoted him as saying.
APA
Nov 22 2012
Azerbaijan
[Translated from Azeri]
An Azerbaijani pressure group has called for immediate deportation
of Armenian ex-foreign minister Raffi Hovhannisyan, leader of the
Heritage party, over the remarks he made at a Baku forum concerning
the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict.
The Karabakh Liberation Organization has described the visit of the
Armenian politician to Baku to participate in an Asian international
conference as "unacceptable", the APA news agency reported on 22
November.
"Immediately upon his arrival to Baku, Raffi Hovhannisyan has
not refrained from expressing his position and making shameless
assertions. He said he regarded Sumqayit as an Armenian city and
rejected the fact of the occupation of Nagornyy Karabakh. On our part
we will use any means for the immediate deportation of the shameless
representative of aggressor Armenia from the country," the news agency
quoted the organization's statement as saying.
Meanwhile, Ali Ahmadov, deputy chairman and executive secretary of
the ruling New Azerbaijan Party, has said that Hovhannisyan's remarks
are out of touch with the standpoint of the international community.
"Regardless of what the former Armenian foreign minister says, the
UN, major European bodies, the international community, including the
OSCE, which is tackling settlement of the conflict, and its co-chairs
have repeatedly voiced the fact that Azerbaijani lands have been
occupied. In addition, they have explicitly said that they recognize
Azerbaijan's territorial integrity. I believe all of this confirms
that the imprudent statement made by the former Armenian foreign
minister is completely groundless," APA quoted Ahmadov as saying.
Turan news agency quoted Hovhannisyan's remarks at a press conference
in Baku. Hovhannisyan said that using terms like "occupation" is
ill-advised. "To follow this logic, a large part of Armenian lands
is also under the occupation of Turkey and Azerbaijan," he said. He
said that "Azerbaijan's aggression against residents of Karabakh"
was the cause of the conflict.
"I realize the problems of 700,000 Azerbaijani refugees and the rights
of 400,000 Armenian refugees evicted from Baku and Sumqayit. They all
have the right to return to their lands, including Azerbaijanis to
independent Nagornyy Karabakh and Armenians to Turkey," the agency
quoted him as saying.