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Statement In reply to the delegation of Azerbaijan delivered by Ambassador Arman Kirakossian at the 944th Meeting of the OSCE

14 March, 2013

 

Statement
In reply to the delegation of Azerbaijan
delivered by Ambassador Arman Kirakossian at the 944th Meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council
March 14, 2013
 
 
Mr Chairman,
 
We took note of the statements made by the delegation of Azerbaijan and France and at this stage we would like to offer information on this incident.
 
This year on February 26- 27 Armenians all over the world including refugees from Azerbaijan commemorate the 25 anniversary of Sumgait pogroms. Sumgait is an Azeri city not far from the capital of Baku where massacre of the Armenian population took place in 1988 years before the war was unleashed by Azerbaijan against population of Nagorno-Karabakh. My delegation circulated Press Release on this occasion.
 
French Armenian organizations held remembrance evening in the French parliament. Unfortunately, certain Azeri young people tried to impede the remembrance event by showing disrespect and humilating the victims. Their provocative and violent behavior caused the incident. We trust that the relevant French authorities will thoroughly investigate the incident.
 
Unfortunately, once again we see the outcomes of Azerbaijani intolerant policy towards its past and the people who were part of that past. Several delegations have already raised here the case of hatred campaign initiated by Azerbaijani authorities against the prominent Azerbaijan writer Akram Aylisli who dared through his literature to pay tribute to enormous suffering of the victims of pogroms which took place in Sumgait and Baku.
 
Encouraging reconciliation through respecting memory of the victims is essential. Making provocation or punishing those who still remember will only further alienate peoples from each other.
 
Thank you.

 

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