POLITICS
AZERBAIJANI COMMUNITY IN BELARUS PROTESTS AGAINST FREEDOM HOUSE
Baku, 17 December (AZERTAC). Congress of Azerbaijani Communities in Belarus sent a letter of protest to Freedom House, a Washington-based international non-governmental organization concerning its annual report.
The letter condemns “comparing Armenia led by the military junta with Azerbaijan, which is moving forward in a democratic way”.
“Armenia has driven out more than one million people from their native lands and perpetrated terrible genocides, and we express regret that your organization compares such a country with Azerbaijan”, the authors of the letter say.
The congress also condemns showing of Nagorno-Karabakh as a “disputed region” in the map of the organization, saying “all international organizations and communities recognize the region as Azerbaijan`s territory.”