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YAP issues statement on European Parliamentâ€™s resolution on Azerbaijan

13 May 2011 17:11 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Ramil Mammadli â€“ APA. The New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) issued a statement on the European Parliamentâ€™s resolution on Azerbaijan. The partyâ€™s press service told APA that the statement regards the European Parliamentâ€™s resolution on Azerbaijan as biased.
â€œThe countryâ€™s people are concerned about a number of untrue clauses included into the resolution adopted at the plenary meeting of the European Parliament on May 12, 2011, despite a very large potential and high level of the cooperation between Azerbaijan and Europe. The clauses about the violation of freedom of speech, media, freedom of assembly in Azerbaijan do not reflect reality. The clause about the political prisoners and arrest of persons for their political views is not true, either, it was included into the document without having been investigated objectively.â€

The statement underlines that the resolution was prepared without having been investigated seriously.
â€œThe adoption of the resolution shows double-standard approach and expresses intention to sacrifice opportunities of broad cooperation between the European Union and Azerbaijan to the superficial interests. Adoption of such a biased resolution prior to the visit of the President of the European Parliament to Azerbaijan does not serve the interests of the European Union or Azerbaijan.â€

YAP strongly rejects the European Parliamentâ€™s remarks aiming to distort the real situation in Azerbaijan and expresses hope that the EP will make efforts to cover the truth basing on the objective approach.