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JAROMIR STETINA SUGGESTS DENOUNCING RESOLUTION ON KHOJALU PRESENTED BY CZECH MP
20:36 19/02/2013 >> REGION
Czech senator sent a letter to current Speaker of the Chamber of
Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic Miroslava Němcova.
Member of Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security Jaromír
Štětina in the letter that is addressed to Speaker of Parliament
Miroslava Němcova has expressed his concern about the resolution
admitted by the this commission on February 7 connected with Khojalu
events.
Armenian European magazine "Days" reports that Štětina stresses that
this resolution has been accepted a few days later of the meeting
of the chairman of commission David Vodrazka with the Azerbaijani
ambassador to Czech Republic Tahir Tanghizade. The document says that
613 peaceful inhabitants have been violently killed by the Armenian
military units in KHojalu.
"This statement does not correspond to reality, and I think that
the Azerbaijani ambassador is misleading the Committee on Foreign
Relations. I was working in Nagorno Karabakh as a foreign correspondent
by the time when the Armenian troops seized Khojalu and I was quite
familiar to the whole situation. The Armenian troops occupied Khojalu
and the airport of Stepanakert that was close to that place. Before
they would attack they announced that they leave a corridor for the
civilians which would lead them to Azerbaijani city of Aghdam. Most of
the inhabitants of Khojalu have used that corridor, some of them have
been seized and moved to Stepanakert and kept in one of the schools
there, I have met them for several times there (most of them were not
Azerbaijanis but Turks from Mskheti,) they have been set free later
on. The violent mass killings of several dozens of civilians have been
committed on their way to Aghdam, on Azerbaijani territory, which was
controlled by Azerbaijani troops and militarized forces. According to
Armenian version and according to my information that I was receiving
by that time it is more possible that the Turks of Mskheti have been
cruelly killed by the Azerbaijani non-governmental special troops.
This has taken place before resignation of Azerbaijani president
Mutalibov, who stated that these mass killings aimed at driving him
from power by accusing him in being unable to secure the safety of
his own people," Štětina says in his letter.
According to the source the senator stressed at the end of the letter
addressed to the speaker of the Parliament that the resolution of the
Defence and Security committee does not correspond to balanced and
correct relations of Czech Republic with South Caucasus and promotes
the growth of tension in the region.
"As far as this resolution is based on one-sided and false information
provided by one of the conflicting sides, and as the other side has had
no chance to get acquainted with the document I offer the Committee
on Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Speaker, to invalidate the resolution,"
Jaromír Štětina says in the letter addressed to Parliament Speaker
Miroslava Němcova.
On February 7 the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security
of Czech Republic held a voting, almost secretly, not informing those
members of the committee who could vote against the resolution and
present the viewpoints of the Armenian side too.
The document is not yet in force as the chairman of the committee
Vodrazka has not signed it yet.
Source: Panorama.am
20:36 19/02/2013 >> REGION
Czech senator sent a letter to current Speaker of the Chamber of
Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic Miroslava Němcova.
Member of Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security Jaromír
Štětina in the letter that is addressed to Speaker of Parliament
Miroslava Němcova has expressed his concern about the resolution
admitted by the this commission on February 7 connected with Khojalu
events.
Armenian European magazine "Days" reports that Štětina stresses that
this resolution has been accepted a few days later of the meeting
of the chairman of commission David Vodrazka with the Azerbaijani
ambassador to Czech Republic Tahir Tanghizade. The document says that
613 peaceful inhabitants have been violently killed by the Armenian
military units in KHojalu.
"This statement does not correspond to reality, and I think that
the Azerbaijani ambassador is misleading the Committee on Foreign
Relations. I was working in Nagorno Karabakh as a foreign correspondent
by the time when the Armenian troops seized Khojalu and I was quite
familiar to the whole situation. The Armenian troops occupied Khojalu
and the airport of Stepanakert that was close to that place. Before
they would attack they announced that they leave a corridor for the
civilians which would lead them to Azerbaijani city of Aghdam. Most of
the inhabitants of Khojalu have used that corridor, some of them have
been seized and moved to Stepanakert and kept in one of the schools
there, I have met them for several times there (most of them were not
Azerbaijanis but Turks from Mskheti,) they have been set free later
on. The violent mass killings of several dozens of civilians have been
committed on their way to Aghdam, on Azerbaijani territory, which was
controlled by Azerbaijani troops and militarized forces. According to
Armenian version and according to my information that I was receiving
by that time it is more possible that the Turks of Mskheti have been
cruelly killed by the Azerbaijani non-governmental special troops.
This has taken place before resignation of Azerbaijani president
Mutalibov, who stated that these mass killings aimed at driving him
from power by accusing him in being unable to secure the safety of
his own people," Štětina says in his letter.
According to the source the senator stressed at the end of the letter
addressed to the speaker of the Parliament that the resolution of the
Defence and Security committee does not correspond to balanced and
correct relations of Czech Republic with South Caucasus and promotes
the growth of tension in the region.
"As far as this resolution is based on one-sided and false information
provided by one of the conflicting sides, and as the other side has had
no chance to get acquainted with the document I offer the Committee
on Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Speaker, to invalidate the resolution,"
Jaromír Štětina says in the letter addressed to Parliament Speaker
Miroslava Němcova.
On February 7 the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security
of Czech Republic held a voting, almost secretly, not informing those
members of the committee who could vote against the resolution and
present the viewpoints of the Armenian side too.
The document is not yet in force as the chairman of the committee
Vodrazka has not signed it yet.
Source: Panorama.am