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UAR CALLS ON AZERIS NOT TO TRANSFER ELEMENTS OF KARABAKH CONFLICT ON RUSSIAN TERRITORY
PanARMENIAN.Net
04.05.2007 18:26 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "On May 1 a festival was organized in People
Friendship University of Russia (PFUR), which aimed at symbolizing
friendship and solidarity between the students of different
nationalities who study in this higher institution. However the
festival was overshadowed by a mass scuffle between Azeri and Armenian
students. An Azeri student's attack on an Armenian girl with a Nagorno
Karabakh banner on her shoulders became the first act of violence and
the cause for further actions. Taking away the banner the assailant
together with his friends tore it up. Then believing in their impunity
Azeris with a whole group attacked an Armenian fellow who was also
holding a banner. However they received a repulse which resulted in
a mass fight," says the statement of Moscow City Council branch of
the Union of Armenians in Russia (UAR) non-governmental organization.
The UAR Moscow City Council decisively condemns any actions based on
national hostility and expresses its regrets to the PFUR university
administration. The UAR Moscow City Council draws the attention
of society and leaders of Azeri community to the circumstance that
representatives of this community have committed hooligan acts running
counter to the declared idea of the festival by provoking the above
mentioned conflict.
"It is quite natural that during the festival, where every
friendly association of people from the same area appears with
its own symbolism, students from Nagorno Karabakh hold the banner,
which symbolizes their Homeland. The Russian legislation clearly
indicates the list of banned symbols. It is natural that the banner
of Nagorno Karabakh is not included in that list. Here the status of
Nagorno Karabakh has nothing to do with this case. Banners symbolize
territories irrespective of their status. For example, all regions of
Russia have their banners not being independent states. Proceeding from
the above mentioned from the very beginning all efforts to drag the
protocol of events of intergovernmental level to the order of student
festival are conflicting and have no bases," the document underlines.
The UAR qualifies actions of Azeris who organized the mass fight
in Moscow as a malicious provocative hooliganism, which became the
original cause for the whole incident. "The Moscow City Council of UAR
again and again calls on leadership and representatives of the Azeri
community not to transfer opposition of our nations on the Russian
territory. It is unacceptable to burden the Russian State and his
nations with our problems. Transformation of any elements of the
conflict to Russian soil must be under strict ban".
PanARMENIAN.Net
04.05.2007 18:26 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "On May 1 a festival was organized in People
Friendship University of Russia (PFUR), which aimed at symbolizing
friendship and solidarity between the students of different
nationalities who study in this higher institution. However the
festival was overshadowed by a mass scuffle between Azeri and Armenian
students. An Azeri student's attack on an Armenian girl with a Nagorno
Karabakh banner on her shoulders became the first act of violence and
the cause for further actions. Taking away the banner the assailant
together with his friends tore it up. Then believing in their impunity
Azeris with a whole group attacked an Armenian fellow who was also
holding a banner. However they received a repulse which resulted in
a mass fight," says the statement of Moscow City Council branch of
the Union of Armenians in Russia (UAR) non-governmental organization.
The UAR Moscow City Council decisively condemns any actions based on
national hostility and expresses its regrets to the PFUR university
administration. The UAR Moscow City Council draws the attention
of society and leaders of Azeri community to the circumstance that
representatives of this community have committed hooligan acts running
counter to the declared idea of the festival by provoking the above
mentioned conflict.
"It is quite natural that during the festival, where every
friendly association of people from the same area appears with
its own symbolism, students from Nagorno Karabakh hold the banner,
which symbolizes their Homeland. The Russian legislation clearly
indicates the list of banned symbols. It is natural that the banner
of Nagorno Karabakh is not included in that list. Here the status of
Nagorno Karabakh has nothing to do with this case. Banners symbolize
territories irrespective of their status. For example, all regions of
Russia have their banners not being independent states. Proceeding from
the above mentioned from the very beginning all efforts to drag the
protocol of events of intergovernmental level to the order of student
festival are conflicting and have no bases," the document underlines.
The UAR qualifies actions of Azeris who organized the mass fight
in Moscow as a malicious provocative hooliganism, which became the
original cause for the whole incident. "The Moscow City Council of UAR
again and again calls on leadership and representatives of the Azeri
community not to transfer opposition of our nations on the Russian
territory. It is unacceptable to burden the Russian State and his
nations with our problems. Transformation of any elements of the
conflict to Russian soil must be under strict ban".