NKR MFA: BAKU TRIES TO DISTRACT ATTENTION FROM ARMENIAN MASSACRE IN SUMGAIT
PanARMENIAN.Net
February 15, 2012 - 10:27 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Khojalu population became hostage of Baku
authorities' dirty tricks who turned this tragedy into speculative
political capital, the Foreign Ministry of Nagorno Karabakh
Republic said, commenting on the discussion of Khojalu issue in OSCE
Parliamentary Assembly.
"Baku is trying to present the betrayal of Khojalu population by
Azerbaijan's authorities as the Armenians' revenge for the bloody
carnage in Sumgait. Meanwhile, the propaganda is carried out with
obvious insinuation and escalation of ethnic intolerance and enmity
towards Armenians. Regularly playing on Khojalu, the official Baku
is trying to distract the attention of the international community
from the massacre of Armenians in Sumgait, Baku, Kirovabad, Khanlar
and other Azerbaijani settlements the whole territory of which saw
in fact barefaced extermination of Armenians. The same happened also
in frontier regions of Karabakh, in particular, in the village of
Maragha where intervention of Azerbaijan's regular army perpetrated a
bloody massacre of about 100 locals in April 1992," says the statement
disseminated by the press service of NKR Foreign Ministry.
Earlier, representative of Azerbaijan in OSCE PA voiced Azerbaijani
delegation's readiness to raise the issue of the alleged "Khojalu
massacre" during Assembly's winter session.
PanARMENIAN.Net
February 15, 2012 - 10:27 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Khojalu population became hostage of Baku
authorities' dirty tricks who turned this tragedy into speculative
political capital, the Foreign Ministry of Nagorno Karabakh
Republic said, commenting on the discussion of Khojalu issue in OSCE
Parliamentary Assembly.
"Baku is trying to present the betrayal of Khojalu population by
Azerbaijan's authorities as the Armenians' revenge for the bloody
carnage in Sumgait. Meanwhile, the propaganda is carried out with
obvious insinuation and escalation of ethnic intolerance and enmity
towards Armenians. Regularly playing on Khojalu, the official Baku
is trying to distract the attention of the international community
from the massacre of Armenians in Sumgait, Baku, Kirovabad, Khanlar
and other Azerbaijani settlements the whole territory of which saw
in fact barefaced extermination of Armenians. The same happened also
in frontier regions of Karabakh, in particular, in the village of
Maragha where intervention of Azerbaijan's regular army perpetrated a
bloody massacre of about 100 locals in April 1992," says the statement
disseminated by the press service of NKR Foreign Ministry.
Earlier, representative of Azerbaijan in OSCE PA voiced Azerbaijani
delegation's readiness to raise the issue of the alleged "Khojalu
massacre" during Assembly's winter session.