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AZERBAIJAN AGAIN WARNS AGAINST ETHNIC ARMENIAN SYRIANS' SETTLEMENT IN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Oct 30 2013
30 October 2013, 15:22 (GMT+04:00)
By Sara Rajabova
Baku is concerned over Armenia's actions on settling Syrian citizens
of Armenian descent to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, the
Azerbaijani embassy in Russia said.
The embassy noted that Armenia continues its illegal actions,
especially efforts aimed at protracting the military occupation and
its consequences and artificially changing the demographic situation
in Azerbaijan's occupied territories, thus ignoring the international
community's position which condemns such activities.
Recently about 200 Armenian refugees from Syria were settled in the
occupied Zangilan region, which was "another clear evidence of the
illegal settlement policy pursued by the Armenian state," a document
received by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti said.
The embassy said that thereupon Azerbaijan hopes that the international
community will take a more resolute approach for a swift solution of
this inveterate problem and to address the "attempts to consolidate the
results of military occupation, including through the implementation
of illegal migration".
Head of the Azerbaijani mission to the United Nations Agshin Mehdiyev
earlier expressed concern over the actions taken by Armenia with a view
to settling Syrian refugees to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
He said that undoubtedly, attempts to address the needs of refugees
from Syria at the expense of hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijani
displaced persons cherishing the hope of returning to their homes are
illegal and cannot be tolerated or accepted under any circumstances.
According to the Armenian government, more than 7,000 Syrian Armenians
have already expressed the desire to move to Armenia, Eastbook.eu
portal reported in August.
The Armenian government started constructing apartment buildings for
Syrian refugees in May this year, the same source said.
Azerbaijan has repeatedly expressed serious concern over the settlement
of Syrian Armenians in its Nagorno-Karabakh region that has long been
occupied by Armenian armed forces.
Earlier, Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov said that Azerbaijan
is not opposed to the placement of Syrian Armenians in other areas,
but is absolutely against the accommodation of Armenian refugees from
Syria in Nagorno-Karabakh.
For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in
conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its
South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory,
including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. A fragile
ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing efforts by
US, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Oct 30 2013
30 October 2013, 15:22 (GMT+04:00)
By Sara Rajabova
Baku is concerned over Armenia's actions on settling Syrian citizens
of Armenian descent to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, the
Azerbaijani embassy in Russia said.
The embassy noted that Armenia continues its illegal actions,
especially efforts aimed at protracting the military occupation and
its consequences and artificially changing the demographic situation
in Azerbaijan's occupied territories, thus ignoring the international
community's position which condemns such activities.
Recently about 200 Armenian refugees from Syria were settled in the
occupied Zangilan region, which was "another clear evidence of the
illegal settlement policy pursued by the Armenian state," a document
received by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti said.
The embassy said that thereupon Azerbaijan hopes that the international
community will take a more resolute approach for a swift solution of
this inveterate problem and to address the "attempts to consolidate the
results of military occupation, including through the implementation
of illegal migration".
Head of the Azerbaijani mission to the United Nations Agshin Mehdiyev
earlier expressed concern over the actions taken by Armenia with a view
to settling Syrian refugees to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
He said that undoubtedly, attempts to address the needs of refugees
from Syria at the expense of hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijani
displaced persons cherishing the hope of returning to their homes are
illegal and cannot be tolerated or accepted under any circumstances.
According to the Armenian government, more than 7,000 Syrian Armenians
have already expressed the desire to move to Armenia, Eastbook.eu
portal reported in August.
The Armenian government started constructing apartment buildings for
Syrian refugees in May this year, the same source said.
Azerbaijan has repeatedly expressed serious concern over the settlement
of Syrian Armenians in its Nagorno-Karabakh region that has long been
occupied by Armenian armed forces.
Earlier, Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov said that Azerbaijan
is not opposed to the placement of Syrian Armenians in other areas,
but is absolutely against the accommodation of Armenian refugees from
Syria in Nagorno-Karabakh.
For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in
conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its
South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory,
including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. A fragile
ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing efforts by
US, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.