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    AzerNews, Azerbaijan
    Aug 28 2014


    Baku assesses pro-Armenian resolution as pure political corruption

    28 August 2014, 12:49 (GMT+05:00)
    By Sara Rajabova

    Azerbaijani Consulate General in Los Angeles has condemned the
    adoption of an anti-Azerbaijani resolution AJR 32 on Nagorno-Karabakh
    in the California State Senate.

    "The racist anti-Azerbaijani resolution AJR 32 on Nagorno-Karabakh has
    been on the agenda of the California State Senate for some time. From
    the very beginning, a number of serious measures were undertaken by
    the Consulate General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles to counter the
    resolution. These measures included, inter alia, sending letters of
    protest to all senators, holding numerous meetings with them, thus
    explaining the biasedness and flawedness of the AJR 32, its
    contradiction to America's stated foreign policy and national
    interests, as well as the fact that this racist resolution justified
    ethnic cleansing and illegal occupation of Azerbaijani lands by
    Armenia," the Consulate General said in its statement made on August
    28.

    The resolution (AJR 32), calling to recognize a separatist regime in
    the occupied territories of Azerbaijan was introduced by Assemblyman
    Mike Gatto at the behest of the Armenian lobby. Gatto submitted the
    proposal to California State Legislature on January 6.

    The Consulate General noted the Azerbaijani community of California
    also got mobilized and through various means harshly protested against
    the resolution.

    The Consulate said as a result, despite inordinate amount of effort by
    the Armenian lobby in California, where around 1 million Armenians
    reside, all the efforts by the two Armenian members of the California
    Legislature, as well as in spite of all the pressure by this ethnic
    lobby on senators using threats, blackmail and other means, 17 out of
    40 senators refused to vote for the resolution.

    "Also, the senators who receive massive financial contributions for
    their election campaigns and therefore hugely depend on the Armenian
    lobby, voted for AJR 32, disregarding all the solid facts presented to
    them. This is a pure political corruption. It has no other name," the
    Consulate said.

    It is also a strong indicator of a serious flaw in America's political
    system that needs an urgent fixing, according to the Consulate.

    "How can a state legislature adopt a document which strongly
    contradicts the federal government's stated foreign policy and damages
    the country's standing and national interests? Why no tangible
    measures are taken to curb the influence of such special interest
    groups who pressure the state legislators to disregard the national
    interests of the U.S.? These are questions still awaiting serious
    answers!" the Consulate said.

    This resolution is not the first resolution adopted by the California
    Legislature regarding Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which erupted back in
    1988 over Armenia's territorial claims against Azerbaijan.

    The three similar resolutions had been adopted by the Legislature at
    the behest of the Armenian lobby in 1993, 1997 and 1999.

    "However neither those resolutions, nor AJR 32 have any legal or
    political significance. The entire international community, including
    the United States and United Nations, recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as
    part of Azerbaijan. Therefore such meaningless pieces of paper are
    unable to change this position," the Consulate underlined.

    Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally
    recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent
    regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus
    neighbor that caused a brutal war in the early 1990s.

    Long-standing efforts by U.S, Russian and French mediators have been
    largely fruitless so far.

    As a result of the military aggression of Armenia, over 20,000
    Azerbaijanis were killed, 4,866 are reported missing and almost
    100,000 were injured, and 50,000 were disabled.

    The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian
    withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been
    enforced to this day.


    http://www.azernews.az/azerbaijan/70050.html



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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