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Azerbaijan condemns all the manifestations of terrorism, the President of Azerbaijan

04 May 2012 21:39 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA.UN Security Council session on counter- terrorism under chairmanship of Ilham Aliyev the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan started in New York, APA reports.

The president of Azerbaijan was declared open the 6765th session of the UN Security Council. President Ilham Aliyev thanked the states supported Azerbaijanâ€™s election to the UN Security Council.

Ilham Aliyev, having speech at the session of the UN security council, noted that Azerbaijan condemns all the form of the terrorism. He noted that terror is a threat against peace and security as well as enjoyment of human rights, fundamental freedoms, democracy, political independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, social and economic development.

â€œAzerbaijan strongly condemns all the forms of terrorism. We consider all the terror acts as a crime and they should be condemned and punished. Terrorists should not be given pretext for their acts. Terror acts can not be justified regardless its motivationâ€, said Ilham Aliyev the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan during his debate on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts.
The President noted that foreign occupation creates conditions for the network between terrorism and aggressive separatism extremism and organized crime

â€œTerrorism has a changing nature and character in many instances separately linked aggressive separatism extremism and organized crime. Areas affected by armed conflicts especially, foreign occupation creates conditions for conductive network between terrorism and those acts in these areas. Azerbaijan has been affected by terrorism in different ways. Azerbaijan has been direct target of externally sponsored terrorist activities. Republic of Armenia committed dozens of terror acts against civilian population and infrastructure of Azerbaijan as a result of which 2 thousand Azerbaijanis lost their lives. Armenia orchestrated those terror acts with direct involvement of its security agencies and by using international terrorists groups,â€ said Ilham Aliyev.

The Head of the State stressed that during active phase of Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Armenia widely practiced terror acts for ethnic cleansing against civilian population of Azerbaijan.

Those act of cruelty culminated with annihilation of Khojaly town in February, 1992, where 613 innocent people including children, women and elderly people were perished. More than 100 women, 63 children were killed. Armenia also targeted civilians far beyond conflict zone by masterminding terror acts in public transport in critical infrastructures such as bomb explosions in Baku metro in 1994 and others.

The meeting â€“ organized by Azerbaijan, which holds the Councilâ€™s rotating presidency for this month, and whose President, Ilham Aliyev, chaired todayâ€™s discussion â€“ comes ahead of next monthâ€™s review by the General Assembly of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.