"The statement by the Armenian minister is intended for the internal audience.
Yerevan can no longer close eyes on the facts of its own isolation and the waves of accusations addressed to the Armenian regime in the result of the proactive implementation of the international campaign of Justice for Khojaly", said Elshad Iskenderov, secretary general of the OIC Youth Forum and Azerbaijan’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, commenting on the statement from the Armenian foreign minister according to whom OIC countries always vote against a non-Muslim state.
"The first reaction of the regime was the attempt to prohibit any hints on the campaign. Thus, in mid 2009 the Armenian authorities blocked the access to the website of the campaign in an an attempt to deprive its citizens of the objective evidences of the tragedy in Khojaly. Later Yerevan attempted to resist the campaign on the international level.
In December of the last year Armenian ambassador in Switzerland Charles Aznavour appealed to the UN Geneva office in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent an international conference that discussed the Khojaly massacres along with genocide in Srebrennica and Ruanda. But despite the efforts of the Armenian authorities and their lobbyists, the campaign is being successfully implemented, expanding the geography and understanding level.
The result is obvious: the international organization uniting the parliaments of 51th countries for the first time recognized the massacres in Khojaly, using the legal term ‘crime against humanity’. This is a victory of justice which affects the diplomatic positions of Armenia that cannot go unnoticed. The regime has chosen the next tactics of belittling this historical decision through leveling the role of the organization", said Elshad Iskenderov.
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