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Azerbaijan and Gambia have signed a document on cooperation, the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry said. The protocol was signed by Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and Gambian Foreign Minister for International Cooperation and Gambians abroad Ousman Jammeh.
Mammadyarov stressed that there was vast potential for cooperation between the two countries in the economic, cultural and humanitarian fields, as well as in education and tourism.
Mammadyarov thanked the Gambian counterpart for the support of Azerbaijan's just position in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict during the voting in international organizations, particularly the UN and the Organization of Islamic Conference.
Jammeh, in turn, said Gambia would continue to support Azerbaijan's position in the Garabagh conflict.
The Gambian delegation on Sunday visited the Guba district, 170 km north of the capital Baku, and paid trubute to the mass burial of genocide victims, which is graphic evidence of the mass killings committed by Armenians in 1918.
According to the Guba executive authority, the Gambian representatives were appalled by the traces of torture seen on the killed civilians’ bones and pledged to endeavor toward advancing Azerbaijan’s fair cause on the world stage.
The massacre was unleashed by the Baku Soviet (city executive power in the Soviet times) and Armenian Dashnaks (nationalists) in Baku and Ganja, as well as in Shamakhy, Guba, Neftchala and Kurdamir regions, between March 30 and April 3, 1918. According to official sources, about 700,000 Azerbaijanis were brutally killed, including some 30,000 people slain in Baku and different parts of the Baku province, and tens of thousands went missing.*