Slovenia’s National Council urges Armenia to liberate Azerbaijan’s occupied lands
By Laman Sadigova
The Slovenian National Council has urged Armenia, which keeps 20 percent of Azerbaijani internationally recognized territories under the occupation for over two decades, to liberate these lands.
The decision on the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was adopted on an initiative by Rudi Matjasic, a member of the Council, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry reported.
Slovenia’s government was urged to support the UN Security Council’s resolutions on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that is aimed at its peaceful settlement. The document also calls on to return the refugees and internally displaced people to their native lands.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict began in 1988 after Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan and, in 1992, occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
The two countries signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the US are currently holding peace negotiations. Armenia hasn’t yet implemented the UN Security Council’s four resolutions on its withdrawal from Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.
Slovenian National Council’s document also condemned the ethnic cleansing and mass extermination of the civilian Azerbaijani population conducted by Armenia. It was also stressed that the genocide committed by the Armenian armed forces in the Azerbaijani town of Khojaly on February 26, 1992, is a crime against the very word of humanity.
The document, issued by Slovenia’s National Council, recalled that 24 years will pass on February 26 from the murder of 613 people, including 63 children, 106 women, 70 elderly people, as well as the disappearance of numerous civilians in Khojaly.
“This crime against humanity was condemned by many world countries,” says the document.
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