Incident

Incident

Milli Majlis holds discussions on Rustam Ibrahimbeyov - UPDATED

Milli Majlis holds discussions on Rustam Ibrahimbeyov - <font color=red>UPDATED </font>

31 October 2008 10:21 (UTC +04:00)

At the beginning lawmaker Yagub Mahmudov, Director of the Institute of History of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, said that Chairman of Azerbaijan Cinematograph Union writer Rustam Ibrahimbeyov showed indignity toward Azerbaijani People in his interview with Russian Pravda.ru. Mahmudov said that Ibrahimbeyov noted that when Armenians left Baku, the cityâ€™s elite disappeared.
The lawmaker said he acutely protested Ibrahimbeyov, who showed partiality to Armenians in his interview. â€œAzerbaijan has no concern with that he makes movie with Armenians. I do not recognize such Azerbaijani intellectualâ€. Mahmudov said they had to take measure against Ibrahimbeyov.
Discussion of the issues on the agenda was stopped and most of lawmakers began to express opinion about this issue.
Bakhtiyar Aliyev, Fazail Ibrahimli and Asaf Hajiyev expressed concern over Ibrahimbeyovâ€™s interview and demanded the Parliament to react to this issue. Lawmaker Nizami Jafarov said that Ibrahimbeyov should apologize to Azerbaijani People and his interview was not accidentally.
Then Speaker Ogtay Asadov interrupted the speeches and asked the lawmakers to pass to the discussion of the issues on the agenda. The speaker said that Armenians would abuse this interview. â€œI consider Azerbaijani People are elite as a whole. The intellectuals of the people are those, who were with Azerbaijan in the difficult timeâ€.
THE speaker did not allow Akram Aylisli, who said it needed in alternative word, and other lawmakers to deliver speeches more. Asadov said if there was a need they would hold additional discussions at the end of the meeting.
Rustam Ibrahimbeyovâ€™s brother Magsud Ibrahimbeyov also attended the Parliamentâ€™s meeting.