Khojaly Genocide anniversary remembered at Indonesian parliament
Azerbaijan’s Ambassador Tamerlan Garayev has met with Zulkifli Hasan, Chairman of the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly in connection with the 24th anniversary of the Khojaly Genocide.
The meeting participants included incoming Indonesian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Husnan Bey Fananie, member of the Azerbaijani-Indonesian inter-parliamentary friendship group Linda Megawati and representatives of local media.
Garayev drew the audience's attention to the fact that “Armenia's aggression against Azerbaijan still continues”.
"Armenia disregards the UN Security Council resolutions and continues the occupation of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territories. All cultural heritage sites in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan – mosques, historical monuments and cemeteries – were destroyed. This was reflected in the reports of international organizations and observers," he said.
He gave detailed information about the atrocities the Armenian armed forces committed against the civilian population, especially women and children.
Hasan, for his part, said he could find no words to describe atrocities of the Armenians against the civilians, particularly children. Hasan expressed his willingness to visit Azerbaijan this year, saying he will publicly condemn Armenian aggression against Azerbaijan both when he visits Azerbaijan`s parliament and gives a press conference. He said he will also openly reiterate Indonesia`s “everlasting” support for Azerbaijan.
The Indonesian ambassador gave additional information about the occupation of 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.
The sides to the conflict currently hold talks based on the renewed Madrid principles, which envisage return of occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani control, ensure the right of all internally displaced persons and refugees to return to their former places of residence, future determination of the final legal status of Nagorno-Karabakh and etc.
However, the peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group have been largely fruitless so far.
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