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  • BAKU: Azeri NGOs critical of US draft res. on Armenian Genocide

    Azeri press Agency, Azerbaijan
    Oct 11 2007


    Azeri NGOs critical of US draft resolution on Armenian genocide


    The Azerbaijani forum of national non-government organizations has
    issued a statement in connection with the adoption of a draft
    resolution on the so-called "Armenian genocide" by the US House of
    Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs.

    The forum says in the statement forwarded to APA news agency that the
    adoption of the draft resolution has caused serious concern and
    regret in the forum of national NGOs that unites 460 organizations.

    "Such an unexpected and unclear step by the legislative body of a
    country which is known as a stronghold of democracy and justice in
    the world is a blow to the authority of the USA regionally and
    worldwide.

    "There is no doubt that the adoption of this resolution will damage
    not just US-Turkish relations, but also US-Azerbaijani relations,
    because US Congress has not reacted at all to the appeal of the
    Azerbaijani Milli Maclis [parliament] regarding the Xocali genocide
    which Armenia committed in front of all mankind on 26 February 1992
    and which is backed up by irrefutable evidence.

    "Not only is aggressive Armenia, a country that demands the
    recognition of the genocide which allegedly happened in 1915, but
    which in fact never happened, not punished, but on the contrary, it
    has its groundless demands met."

    Appealing to the US public, Congress and Senate, the forum called on
    them to prevent the adoption of this resolution which runs counter to
    US national interests and damages peace and stability in the region.
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