Foreign

Home page

Foreign

Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to UN Agshin Mehdiyev issues new letter to UN Secretary-General

17 August 2011 08:39 (UTC +04:00)

Washington. Isabel Levine â€“ APA. For the second time in a month, Azerbaijan has drawn the UNâ€™s attention to the murder of a 13-year-old Azerbaijani girl by Armenians, APAâ€™s Washington DC correspondent was informed by the UN News Service.

Agshin Mehdiyev, Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the UN, has issued a new letter to the UN Secretary-General.

â€œThe increasing number of casualties over the past several months among Azerbaijani civilians residing in the front-line areas represents yet another piece of evidence testifying to Armeniaâ€™s apparent disregard of its obligations under international law and in the context of the ongoing conflict settlement processâ€, he stressed.

â€œIn their joint statement of 26 May 2011 made in Deauville, France, the Presidents of France, the Russian Federation and the USA inter alia, strongly urged the sides to prepare their populations for peace, not war. The Armenian side responded to this call in the manner so characteristic of itâ€, the Ambassador noted adding, â€œin addition to intensified attacks on Azerbaijani civilians and civilian objects across the front line and the recent uncontrollable surge of hostile rhetoric towards Azerbaijan from the Armenian leadershipâ€.

Mr. Mehdiyev mentioned that, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan went farther ahead and once and for all shattered the artificially imposed myth of his governmentâ€™s ability to engage in a constructive search for peace in the region.

â€œAt a meeting with the participants in the fifth Pan-Armenian Olympiad for the Armenian Language, Literature and Armenian Studies held in Gara Chichek (Tsakhkadzor), Armenia, on 25 July 2011, the head of the Armenian State instructed the youth of his country to continue the implementation of the policy of hatred and mistrust among the peoples of the region. Thus, in response to the question of a student about the perspectives of expanding Armeniaâ€™s territory at the expense of neighboring Turkey, Serzh Sargsyan said that the realization of this duty would depend on the efforts of the new generation and referred as an example to the fulfillment of the task of capturing a part of what he called â€œour fatherland â€” Karabakhâ€.

â€œInstead of preparing its people for peace and a prosperous and stable future in friendship and cooperation with the neighbouring nations, the President of Armenia openly incites the youth and future generations of his country to new wars and violenceâ€, says the Ambassador.

â€œPresident Serzh Sargsyan has not confined himself to the above-mentioned harmful views and continued sharing them at the joint press conference with the President of Poland in Yerevan on 28 July 2011. This time he was deeply absorbed in discussing the issues pertaining to the sovereign territory of another State â€” the Republic of Azerbaijan. According to the President of Armenia, â€œthe Nagorno-Karabakh conflict â€¦ erupted as a result of the violation of the Nagorno-Karabakh peopleâ€™s right for self-determinationâ€ and â€œthe legitimate right of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh to master their own destiny, to have security guarantees and prosper in their historical land must be respectedâ€.

â€œAzerbaijan considers historical assertions of the Armenian side, a vivid example of which is the reference by the President of Armenia to the occupied Daghlyq Garabagh region of Azerbaijan as allegedly the occupiersâ€™ â€œhistorical landâ€ or â€œfatherlandâ€, as false and having the sole purpose of misleading the international community and justifying the policy of violent territorial expansionismâ€, note Mr. Mehdiyev adding, having implemented the total ethnic cleansing of both the territory of Armenia and the occupied territories of Azerbaijan of all non-Armenians and thus succeeded in creating the uniquely mono-ethnic culture in these areas, the leadership of Armenia long ago unveiled its annexationist intentions, at the core of which are historical delusions and racial animosity.

â€œThe defiant behavior of those high-ranking officials in Armenia opposing the perspectives of a peaceful and prosperous future for the region, ordering the targeting of Azerbaijani civilians, including children, manipulating public opinion and trying to delude the international community leaves no doubt as to their unwillingness to work for peace and attempts to provoke large-scale destabilizationâ€.

â€œWe are confident that the leadership of Armenia will be obliged to cease its provocative policy, to ensure that the occupation of Azerbaijani territory is ended, to denounce its territorial claims towards neighbouring nations and to establish civilized relations with all countries of the region. The Republic of Azerbaijan sincerely believes that there is no alternative to peace, stability and mutually beneficial regional cooperationâ€, the Ambassador noted.

In his letter Mr. Mehdiyev also draw the UNâ€™s attention to the ongoing violations of the ceasefire by
The Armenian armed forces recorded for the last month.

As a result of these violations besides 13-year-old Azerbaijani girl, one officer of the armed forces of Azerbaijan was killed as well, and two Azerbaijani civilians were seriously wounded.