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Jewish member of Azerbaijani parliament condemns Israel for incident in Mediterranean Sea

02 June 2010 13:28 (UTC +04:00)

I condemn the happenings. There are casualties. I condemn any country that causes human loss,â€ Jewish member of the Azerbaijani parliament Yevda Abramov told APA while commenting on the situation between Turkey and Israel over the incident in the Mediterranean Sea.

He says one should not hurry while assessing the happenings. According to the parliamentarian, the incident is being investigated at the highest level. Yevda Abramov noted that both sides should be far from emotions. He said any inappropriate word may cause undesirable results.
â€œI reiterate that I do not want anyone to be hurt, let alone death of twenty peopleâ€¦â€ he said.

Yevda Abramov expressed his regret that the relations between Turkey and Israel have cooled.
â€œI was in Turkey and Israel almost a month ago. I had several meetings in Istanbul. Azerbaijan wanted Israel-Turkey relations to improve. But it is a pityâ€¦ Understand me properly. If those ships carried nothing that might damage Israelâ€™s territorial integrity, security, then Israelâ€™s action must be condemned. This incident may lay conditions for a new confrontation in the Near East. Some states may use it for their interests. I read Armenian newspapers today. They are happy and making proposals that Armenia should use this situation and put the so-called â€œArmenian genocideâ€ issue on Knessetâ€™s agenda. I am Azerbaijani citizen. I am grateful to Azerbaijani people for my education, living conditions and achievements. You must know that I am a member of the Azerbaijan-Israel inter-parliamentary friendship group. I have to be unbiased. If I donâ€™t speak correctly, tomorrow Israeli parliament and other government agencies will not accept me. I successfully raised the problems of Azerbaijan and Turkey in Israel many times. Today some media organizations criticize Azerbaijan that it is not together with Turkey. But Azerbaijan is always supporting Turkeyâ€.

The parliamentarian of Jewish origin gave some interesting details about the incident. According to him, those, who are talking about the incident, donâ€™t know many things. â€œIsraeli intelligence service has some materials. They demanded a map of humanitarian aid groupâ€™s route and list of cargo they carried, but they didnâ€™t meet these demands. Israel forwarded this cargo to Palestine. They should do it together. The foreign intelligence obtained information that there were several members of international terrorist groups. While landing forces entered the ship they tore their passports and threw to the sea. Why? There are many questionsâ€¦I can say only that Turkey is a powerful country. Such actions against it are unacceptableâ€.