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Today;s Zaman, Turkey
april 25 2014
Azerbaijan blasts Armenia for indifference to ErdoÄ?an's condolences
April 25, 2014, Friday/ 19:35:33/ TODAYSZAMAN .COM/ ISTANBUL
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has harshly criticized Armenian
leadership for failing to respond to Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip ErdoÄ?an's condolences for 1915 events.
`It's clear who does not want peace in the region,' Aliyev said in
response to Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan's speech that criticized
Turkey during a summit on the Eastern Partnership program in Prague.
Aliyev said Sarksyan's using an `opportunity to attack Turkey' because
Turkish representatives are absent, but he is here to respond,
according to a transcript provided by Azerbaijan's APA news agency.
Aliyev said ErdoÄ?an offered Armenian leadership to open all archives
to historians and ErdoÄ?an extended condolences to Armenians. He added
that although the US and the EU highly appreciated the position of
ErdoÄ?an, `it seems that this is not sufficient for the Armenian
government.'
In response to Sarksyan's criticism that Turkish-Armenian border still
remains closed, Aliyev said the border has been shut down since
Armenian occupation of Kalbajar region in 1993.
Aliyev recalled that all Azerbaijanis, composed of at least 30 percent
of the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, were deported from the territory and
seven adjacent regions to Karabakh were occupied ` 20 percent of
Azerbaijan's territories.
The president said Azerbaijanis were subject to `ethnic cleansing' and
said the conflict has not been resolved yet despite four UN Security
Council resolutions, European Parliament and Parliamentary Assembly of
the Council of Europe resolutions. Aliyev noted that Armenia
disregards these resolutions and continues occupation of the
territories which have never belonged to them.
Aliyev said `we want peace, we want to get back our territories.' He
urged Armenia to start withdrawing its troops from the occupied
territories of Azerbaijan.
`It's easy to do that. Only Armenia should had political will,' Aliyev
stressed. He also questioned why Armenia is not targeted with
sanctions and no punishment is inflicted on them. He added that
`illegal, criminal' so-called representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh
regime obtain visas to European capitals.
`This is unbearable and this must be ended,' Aliyev said.
april 25 2014
Azerbaijan blasts Armenia for indifference to ErdoÄ?an's condolences
April 25, 2014, Friday/ 19:35:33/ TODAYSZAMAN .COM/ ISTANBUL
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has harshly criticized Armenian
leadership for failing to respond to Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip ErdoÄ?an's condolences for 1915 events.
`It's clear who does not want peace in the region,' Aliyev said in
response to Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan's speech that criticized
Turkey during a summit on the Eastern Partnership program in Prague.
Aliyev said Sarksyan's using an `opportunity to attack Turkey' because
Turkish representatives are absent, but he is here to respond,
according to a transcript provided by Azerbaijan's APA news agency.
Aliyev said ErdoÄ?an offered Armenian leadership to open all archives
to historians and ErdoÄ?an extended condolences to Armenians. He added
that although the US and the EU highly appreciated the position of
ErdoÄ?an, `it seems that this is not sufficient for the Armenian
government.'
In response to Sarksyan's criticism that Turkish-Armenian border still
remains closed, Aliyev said the border has been shut down since
Armenian occupation of Kalbajar region in 1993.
Aliyev recalled that all Azerbaijanis, composed of at least 30 percent
of the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, were deported from the territory and
seven adjacent regions to Karabakh were occupied ` 20 percent of
Azerbaijan's territories.
The president said Azerbaijanis were subject to `ethnic cleansing' and
said the conflict has not been resolved yet despite four UN Security
Council resolutions, European Parliament and Parliamentary Assembly of
the Council of Europe resolutions. Aliyev noted that Armenia
disregards these resolutions and continues occupation of the
territories which have never belonged to them.
Aliyev said `we want peace, we want to get back our territories.' He
urged Armenia to start withdrawing its troops from the occupied
territories of Azerbaijan.
`It's easy to do that. Only Armenia should had political will,' Aliyev
stressed. He also questioned why Armenia is not targeted with
sanctions and no punishment is inflicted on them. He added that
`illegal, criminal' so-called representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh
regime obtain visas to European capitals.
`This is unbearable and this must be ended,' Aliyev said.