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ARMENIA ACCUSES AZERBAIJAN OF RACISM, SLAMS AZERI PRESIDENT
Interfax
May 10 2012
Russia
Armenia lashed out against Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev on
Saturday, accusing him of vicious anti-Armenian propaganda.
"Instead of reaffirming the loyalty of his country to the processes
of peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Azeri
president abused the influential platform of the UN Security Council to
repeat hackneyed postulates of the anti-Armenian propaganda of Baku,
except that he forgot to mention the well-known racist thesis of the
Azeri leadership that 'the world Armenian community is the number one
enemy of Azerbaijan,'" Armenia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement
made available to Interfax.
"At the meeting of the UN Security Council that discussed action
against terrorism, the president made an unsuccessful attempt to
shift responsibility for ties with terrorist organizations to others,
meanwhile being head of a state that, during the Nagorno-Karabakh war,
used thousands of mercenaries who were closely linked to well-known
international terrorist networks," the ministry said.
The ministry accused Azerbaijan of posing a permanent threat to
regional stability and security and of provocative statements. This
threatens to undermine the prestige of the UN Security Council,
the ministry said.
Earlier, Aliyev told the Security Council that Azerbaijan had been
a target of foreign-sponsored terrorism.
"Armenia has perpetrated dozens of terrorist acts against the
population and infrastructure of Azerbaijan, in which thousands of
Azeris were killed. In the course of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
Armenia has used terrorist acts against Azeri civilians with the aim
of wide-scale ethnic cleansing," he said.
Interfax
May 10 2012
Russia
Armenia lashed out against Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev on
Saturday, accusing him of vicious anti-Armenian propaganda.
"Instead of reaffirming the loyalty of his country to the processes
of peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Azeri
president abused the influential platform of the UN Security Council to
repeat hackneyed postulates of the anti-Armenian propaganda of Baku,
except that he forgot to mention the well-known racist thesis of the
Azeri leadership that 'the world Armenian community is the number one
enemy of Azerbaijan,'" Armenia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement
made available to Interfax.
"At the meeting of the UN Security Council that discussed action
against terrorism, the president made an unsuccessful attempt to
shift responsibility for ties with terrorist organizations to others,
meanwhile being head of a state that, during the Nagorno-Karabakh war,
used thousands of mercenaries who were closely linked to well-known
international terrorist networks," the ministry said.
The ministry accused Azerbaijan of posing a permanent threat to
regional stability and security and of provocative statements. This
threatens to undermine the prestige of the UN Security Council,
the ministry said.
Earlier, Aliyev told the Security Council that Azerbaijan had been
a target of foreign-sponsored terrorism.
"Armenia has perpetrated dozens of terrorist acts against the
population and infrastructure of Azerbaijan, in which thousands of
Azeris were killed. In the course of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
Armenia has used terrorist acts against Azeri civilians with the aim
of wide-scale ethnic cleansing," he said.