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Lithuanian journalist: â€œLiberation of Karabakh is a duty of not only Azerbaijan, but entire worldâ€

27 February 2010 11:11 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Victoria Dementieva â€“ APA. â€œLiberation of Nagorno Karabakh and returning the people to their homeland is a duty of not only Azerbaijan, but entire worldâ€, said editor of Lithuanian newspaper â€œZvezda Lazdijaiâ€ Richardas Lapaitis at a press conference in Baku, APA reports. He said he visited Azerbaijan to collect evidences about crimes committed against Azerbaijanis in Khojaly. The journalist said he met with the officials of Republican Prosecutorâ€™s Office and got additional information. â€œI want justice and I will achieve it. I wish all children of Khojaly and whole Karabakh to return to their homeland and Karabakh to return to Azerbaijanâ€.

Lapaitis said he visited Azerbaijan just after the Khojaly tragedy in 1992 and collected materials about the atrocities committed on February 26 and Karabakh war. The Lithuanian journalist said in 1993 he had reports about that the Armenians used chemical weapons and bullets with changed center of gravity, but no newspaper in Lithuania published the reports. â€œOnly one small newspaper published that material. After that Armenians entered our editorial office and threatened me and my colleaguesâ€.

Adviser to economic commission of Lithuanian Sejm Imantas Meljanas noted that it needed to break Armenian propaganda and to inform the people about the truth for restoration of justice and to return occupied lands. â€œInternational law is on the side of Azerbaijan, but information is very important. Today the word is important, but not bullet. It needs to deliver this word correctlyâ€.