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EU ambassador in Azerbaijan offers condolences regarding Khojaly genocide

Peter Michalko, Ambassador of the Delegation of the European Union to Azerbaijan

26 February 2024 11:20 (UTC +04:00)

Ambassador of the Delegation of the European Union to Azerbaijan, Peter Michalko, expressed his condolences to the Azerbaijani people on the 32nd anniversary of the Khojaly genocide, an official account of the Delegation of the European Union to Azerbaijan made a post on Facebook, APA reports.

The post reads: “We mourn the victims of the horrible tragedy in Khojaly: women, men, children, elderly, and we keep memory of all of them. I express my deep condolences to all those who lost their families, friends, and homes in Khojaly. We all need to continue to work together and do everything for reconciliation and long-lasting peace in order to ensure that such tragedies never happen again,” the ambassador stated.

Note that on February 25, 1992, Armenian armed forces attacked the city of Khojaly with the help of armored vehicles and military personnel of the USSR’s 366th Motorized Rifle Regiment stationed in Khankandi. As a result of the Khojaly genocide, which was a tragedy of a century, 613 civilians, as well as 63 children, 106 women, and 70 old people were killed atrociously, 8 families were annihilated, 25 children lost both parents, 130 children lost one parent, 487 were wounded (76 of them are children), some 1,275 innocent residents were taken hostage, while the fate of 150 people including 68 women and 26 children remains unknown.