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Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry comments on Armenia’s fake accusations

9 October 2020 19:44 (UTC+04:00)
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry comments on Armenia’s fake accusations

By Trend

The Armenian Foreign Ministry’s statement on the targeting of the places of religious worship and cultural monuments in the occupied Shusha city by the Azerbaijani armed forces is another false accusation and provocation of Armenia aimed at diverting the attention of the international community from its deliberate shelling of the densely populated residential areas, civilian infrastructures and cultural monuments in Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said.

The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry was commenting on the Armenian Foreign Ministry’s statement on the Azerbaijani armed forces’ strike on the places of religious worship and cultural monuments in the occupied city of Shusha, Trend reports on Oct. 9.

“Almost for 30 years, Armenia has pursued the policy of deliberate destruction of the Azerbaijani historical and cultural monuments in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, aimed at removing any signs heralding their Azerbaijani legacy,” the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said.

“Recently targeting the second biggest city, as well as the center of the historical and cultural heritage of Azerbaijan, Ganja city in rocket strikes clearly demonstrated the long-standing policy of the vandalism of Armenia,” the ministry added.

“Azerbaijan is among the countries where cultural diversity is felt clearly and openly, it is among the most religiously tolerant countries in the world,” the ministry said. “Unlike Armenia, which has committed cultural genocide, destroyed and desecrated the Muslim Mosques in the occupied territories, Azerbaijan attaches great importance to preserving the traditions of tolerance and the fact that the Armenian Saint Gregory Church in downtown Baku is fully refurbished and under State protection is a vivid example to that policy.”

“As officially declared by the Military Command of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, the targets of the Azerbaijani Army are the military infrastructures, fire positions and military units of the Armenian armed forces,” the ministry said.

“Azerbaijani armed forces undertake the counteroffensive measures on the sovereign territories of Azerbaijan following the international humanitarian law and Geneva Conventions,” the ministry said.

“We reiterate that Armenia’s attacks directed at civilians, that caused indiscriminate or disproportionate harm to civilians and civilian objects in Azerbaijan amount to war crimes under international humanitarian law, for which Armenia bears the liability and which also incur individual criminal responsibility of the perpetrators,” the ministry said.

“There is no doubt that all historical, cultural, religious monuments of Azerbaijan destroyed as a result of Armenia’s aggression will be restored as soon as the Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding regions of Azerbaijan are liberated from the occupation,” the ministry said.

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