MILLI MAJLIS ISSUES STATEMENT ON THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF KHOJALY GENOCIDE
The Milli Majlis (Parliament) of Azerbaijan at its 27 February session has issued a statement in connection with the 15th anniversary of the genocide committed by Armenian armed forces against residents of the city of Khojaly in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan on February 26, 1992.
The statement addressed to the United Nations, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Council of Europe, European Union, Organization of the Islamic Conference, Commonwealth of the Independent States, and other international organizations, as well as parliaments and governments of the world countries urges them to recognize and condemn the Khojaly genocide, take effective measures to prevent such crimes in the future, and assist in a peaceful resolution of the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the basis of the generally recognized norms and principles of the international law, in particular, the principle of territorial integrity of states, which is the most basic of them.
Demanding unconditional liberation of the occupied territories provided for in the United Nations Security Council resolutions No 822, 853, 874 and 884 adopted in 1993, the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan calls for taking the resolutions of the OSCE summits in Budapest, Lisbon and Istanbul, as well as the resolution No 1,416 of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe as basis for resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem.
The Azerbaijan’s Parliament also calls on the Armenian side to take a constructive position in the peace process, withdraw its armed forces from the occupied territories and recognize territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.
“Expressing the sovereign will of the people of Azerbaijan, the Milli Majlis of the Azerbaijan Republic states once again that the Republic of Azerbaijan will never agree with violation of sovereignty in its territory, and predatory occupation of its lands, and will use all possible means to restore its territorial integrity, and achieve international political and legal assessment of the Khojaly tragedy, and punishment of its ideologists, organizers and performers,” the statement says.
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