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Azerbaijani civil society representatives express protest to European Parliament President

04 December 2014 15:55 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Mubariz Aslanov – APA. National NGO Forum has issued a statement protesting against the speech by President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz at the EP session on November 26, the Forum told APA.

It was noted that the statements regarding the violation of the rights of Leyla Yunus made by Schulz at the EP's plenary session in Strasbourg Nov. 26 are interference in the internal affairs of the country.

“Schulz tried to create the impression that Azerbaijan generally fails to comply with human rights. Trying to defend persons accused of specific criminal offenses, including treason under the pretext of violations of freedom of speech, press and expression, casts a shadow over the objectivity of the European Parliament and indicates to frivolous and politically biased position. Schultz has never touched on the rights of hundreds of thousands of the Azerbaijanis displaced from Armenia and their lands in Karabakh so far.”

The statement says that Schulz is mostly interested in casting a shadow on the achievements of Azerbaijan, describing the Azerbaijani people as people away from democratic values: “We, 648 NGO heads unequivocally reject Schulz’s biased statements on our country and call on the European community to protest against this policy of double standards.”