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AZERBAIJAN LISTS ARMENIAN CEASE-FIRE VIOLATIONS FOR UN
news.az
Aug 16, 2011
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan's envoy to the UN has sent a list of Armenian cease-fire
violations to the secretary-general for circulation at the UN General
Assembly.
In an accompanying letter to Ban Ki-moon, published on the website
of Azerbaijan's permanent representation at the UN, Ambassador Agshin
Mehdiyev draws attention to violations of the cease-fire in July and
to bellicose rhetoric by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
"As a result of these violations and the terrorist act committed by
the Armenian side on 14 July 2011, during the aforementioned period
a 13-year-old Azerbaijani girl and one officer of the armed forces of
the Republic of Azerbaijan were killed and two Azerbaijani civilians
were seriously wounded," Mehdiyev writes.
"The increasing number of casualties over the past several months among
Azerbaijani civilians residing in the front-line areas represents yet
another piece of evidence testifying to Armenia's apparent disregard
of its obligations under international law and in the context of the
ongoing conflict settlement process."
The annex attached to the letter cites over 50 instances of what it
says are violations of the cease-fire by Armenian forces in July.
The letter goes on to recall remarks about taking Turkish territory,
made by the Armenian president at a meeting with students on 25 July.
"In response to the question of a student about the perspectives of
expanding Armenia's territory at the expense of neighbouring Turkey,
Serzh Sargsyan said that the realization of this duty would depend
on the efforts of the new generation and referred as an example to
the fulfilment of the task of capturing a part of what he called
'our fatherland - Karabakh'.
"In other words, instead of preparing its people for peace and a
prosperous and stable future in friendship and cooperation with the
neighbouring nations, the president of Armenia openly incites the
youth and future generations of his country to new wars and violence,"
the letter says.
It goes on to dismiss claims by Serzh Sargsyan, most recently made
at a press conference with his Polish counterpart on 28 July, that
the Karabakh conflict was a struggle for self-determination.
"It has been internationally recognized, including by the principal
organs of the United Nations, that Armenia unleashed the war, attacked
Azerbaijan and occupied its territories, including the Daghlyq Garabagh
(Nagorno-Karabakh) region, carried out ethnic cleansing on a massive
scale, perpetrated other heinous crimes in the course of the war and
established the ethnically constructed subordinate separatist entity
on the captured Azerbaijani territory.
The president of Armenia, who bears personal responsibility for
horrible atrocities against Azerbaijani civilians, must be well aware
that what he considers 'the violation of the Nagorno-Karabakh people's
right for self-determination' has been unequivocally qualified by the
United Nations Security Council and the General Assembly, as well as
by other authoritative international organizations, as the illegal
use of force against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the
Republic of Azerbaijan and other egregious violations of the Charter
of the United Nations and international law."
The letter concludes that Armenia will have to give up its occupation
of Azerbaijani territory.
"We are confident that the leadership of Armenia will be obliged
to cease its provocative policy, to ensure that the occupation of
Azerbaijani territory is ended, to denounce its territorial claims
towards neighbouring nations and to establish civilized relations
with all countries of the region. The Republic of Azerbaijan sincerely
believes that there is no alternative to peace, stability and mutually
beneficial regional cooperation," Agshin Mehdiyev writes and asks
for the letter and annex to be circulated as a document of the UN
General Assembly.
news.az
Aug 16, 2011
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan's envoy to the UN has sent a list of Armenian cease-fire
violations to the secretary-general for circulation at the UN General
Assembly.
In an accompanying letter to Ban Ki-moon, published on the website
of Azerbaijan's permanent representation at the UN, Ambassador Agshin
Mehdiyev draws attention to violations of the cease-fire in July and
to bellicose rhetoric by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
"As a result of these violations and the terrorist act committed by
the Armenian side on 14 July 2011, during the aforementioned period
a 13-year-old Azerbaijani girl and one officer of the armed forces of
the Republic of Azerbaijan were killed and two Azerbaijani civilians
were seriously wounded," Mehdiyev writes.
"The increasing number of casualties over the past several months among
Azerbaijani civilians residing in the front-line areas represents yet
another piece of evidence testifying to Armenia's apparent disregard
of its obligations under international law and in the context of the
ongoing conflict settlement process."
The annex attached to the letter cites over 50 instances of what it
says are violations of the cease-fire by Armenian forces in July.
The letter goes on to recall remarks about taking Turkish territory,
made by the Armenian president at a meeting with students on 25 July.
"In response to the question of a student about the perspectives of
expanding Armenia's territory at the expense of neighbouring Turkey,
Serzh Sargsyan said that the realization of this duty would depend
on the efforts of the new generation and referred as an example to
the fulfilment of the task of capturing a part of what he called
'our fatherland - Karabakh'.
"In other words, instead of preparing its people for peace and a
prosperous and stable future in friendship and cooperation with the
neighbouring nations, the president of Armenia openly incites the
youth and future generations of his country to new wars and violence,"
the letter says.
It goes on to dismiss claims by Serzh Sargsyan, most recently made
at a press conference with his Polish counterpart on 28 July, that
the Karabakh conflict was a struggle for self-determination.
"It has been internationally recognized, including by the principal
organs of the United Nations, that Armenia unleashed the war, attacked
Azerbaijan and occupied its territories, including the Daghlyq Garabagh
(Nagorno-Karabakh) region, carried out ethnic cleansing on a massive
scale, perpetrated other heinous crimes in the course of the war and
established the ethnically constructed subordinate separatist entity
on the captured Azerbaijani territory.
The president of Armenia, who bears personal responsibility for
horrible atrocities against Azerbaijani civilians, must be well aware
that what he considers 'the violation of the Nagorno-Karabakh people's
right for self-determination' has been unequivocally qualified by the
United Nations Security Council and the General Assembly, as well as
by other authoritative international organizations, as the illegal
use of force against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the
Republic of Azerbaijan and other egregious violations of the Charter
of the United Nations and international law."
The letter concludes that Armenia will have to give up its occupation
of Azerbaijani territory.
"We are confident that the leadership of Armenia will be obliged
to cease its provocative policy, to ensure that the occupation of
Azerbaijani territory is ended, to denounce its territorial claims
towards neighbouring nations and to establish civilized relations
with all countries of the region. The Republic of Azerbaijan sincerely
believes that there is no alternative to peace, stability and mutually
beneficial regional cooperation," Agshin Mehdiyev writes and asks
for the letter and annex to be circulated as a document of the UN
General Assembly.