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PACE issues written statement on 60th anniversary of the deportation of Azerbaijanis from Armenia

28 January 2009 16:21 (UTC +04:00)

Strasbourg. Alexander Kinâ€“APA. Azerbaijani parliamentarian delegated to PACE Ganira Pashayeva prepared a written statement on the 60th anniversary of the deportation of Azerbaijanis from Armenia. The statement was signed by more than 20 parliamentarians from Great Britain, Germany, Turkey, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria, Albania and other countries and was issued as a written official statement of PACE, APA European bureau reports.
Rights of all deported people during the Stalinâ€™s power to return home were recognized, said in the document. â€œHowever Armenia refuses to recognize the rights of Azerbaijani people deported from Armenia in 1948-53 to return home. Armenia violates the fundamental human rights of 150 thousand Azerbaijanis, who were deported from Armenia 60 years agoâ€.
â€œThe rights of all people, except Azerbaijani, deported during the Stalinâ€™s power were restored and today only Azerbaijani people are deprived of their rightsâ€.
As a result of indifference of international organizations and world community, Armenia continued its mono-ethnic state policy, which is condemned today by the Council of Europe, and expelled Azerbaijani people from their homeland in 1988. 300 thousand Azerbaijanis were expelled from their historic lands as a result of Armeniaâ€™s ethnic cleansing policy, said in the statement.

PACE, declaring the human rights its priority, and PACE member countries condemn these crimes committed against Azerbaijanis and calls on the member-countries of the Council of Europe to use strong mechanism of pressure on Armenia to force it to recognize and to restore the rights of Azerbaijanis deported from their homeland to return.