Azerbaijani envoy to US urges Washington Post to take balanced position
Baku, July 16 (AZERTAC). The Washigton Post has published Azerbaijani ambassador to the United States Yashar Aliyev`s letter.
The article reads: Will Englund`s July 7 news article, “In Karabakh, the first post-Soviet war,” misrepresented the facts regarding the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict and failed to present the Azerbaijani position.
The article emphasized the Armenian interpretation of Stalin`s 1921 decision to “assign” Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan, which in fact was the decision to retain Nagorno-Karabakh within Azerbaijan. Left out, however, was any mention of the million Azerbaijanis who became refugees and internally displaced persons, the four U.N. Security Council resolutions demanding withdrawal of occupying forces from the territories of Azerbaijan, and the crimes committed against Azerbaijanis, such as the Khojaly massacre of 1992. Instead, the article amounted to an advertisement of the illegal separatist regime installed in Nagorno-Karabakh by Armenia.
Then, in his July 8 news article “Nagorno-Karabakh wants a seat at the table”, Mr. Englund disregarded the fact that Nagorno-Karabakh has always had two communities — Azerbaijani and Armenian.
“We hope that in the future The Post will pay equal attention to the Azerbaijani position”, said the ambassador.
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