Foreign journalists visit Azerbaijan’s Aghdam

Foreign journalists visit Azerbaijan’s Aghdam
# 29 April 2016 12:39 (UTC +04:00)

The journalists met with relatives of the residents of Aghdam’s Chemenli district – Famil Mustafayev and Ali Huseynov, who were killed as a result of the shelling of Azerbaijani settlements by Armenia.

The bereaved people said that what happened is a crime against the civilian population.

Hikmat Hajiyev, spokesman for Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry, said Armenia’s military and criminal regime has violated the international law and committed a crime against Azerbaijani civilians.

Hajiyev noted that all these crimes should be given legal assessment.

Then the journalists visited the Aghdam district central hospital to meet with the residents of Aghdam district’s Chemenli village – Shabnam Garashova, Adil Mammadov and Elnur Mammadov, who were injured as a result of the shelling.

The doctors said they received shrapnel wounds and are in stable condition.

Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hikmat Hajiyev on Friday morning arrived in the country's frontline districts, leading local and foreign journalists accredited in Azerbaijan.

The journalists first went to Barda Diagnostic Center to visit the civilians injured as a result of the shelling by Armenia of Azerbaijan’s residential areas.

Among the journalists are the representatives of Reuters news agency, Bloomberg news agency, AFP news agency, RIA Novosti news agency, Anadolu Agency, IHA news agency, Russia 24 TV channel, as well as Israeli media expert Arye Gut and former Moldovan ombudsman Aurelia Grigoriu.

The group of journalists also includes a representative of Azerbaijan's APA Information Agency.

#
#

THE OPERATION IS BEING PERFORMED