Members of the Azerbaijani-Israeli inter-parliamentary group will leave for Tel Aviv on 4 May.
’The Azerbaijani parliamentarians will do their utmost during the visit to Israel to prevent the Knesset adopting the resolution on the Armenian genocide,’ Milli Majlis Deputy Yevda Abramov told Novosti-Azerbaijan today.
The Azerbaijani MPs will discuss the development of bilateral relations in different spheres, including on the parliamentary level, Yevda Abramov said, but the main issue on the agenda is the genocide question.
The Meretz faction in the Knesset has proposed recognizing the killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as ’genocide’.
He said the Azerbaijani deputies would try to persuade Israeli parliamentarians that discussion and recognition of the ’Armenian genocide’ did not meet the national interests of Israel.
’Tel Aviv understands full well that the recognition of the “Armenian genocide” by Israel will damage relations between Israel and Azerbaijan,’ Abramov said.
Yevda Abramov represents the Jewish community of Azerbaijan.
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