New Azerbaijan Party has sent letter of protest to OSCE Minsk Group.
Azerbaijan’s ruling New Azerbaijan Party has sent a letter to OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Bernard Fassier of France, Igor Popov of Russia and Robert Bradke of United States to protest against resettlement of Armenian families from abroad in occupied lands of Azerbaijan.
The copy of the letter will be handed to visiting Chairman of the OSCE PA Petros Efthymiou in Baku.
Noting media reports claiming that over 200 Armenian families from Kyrgyzstan are planned to be resettled in Nagorno-Karabakh soon, the letter says that illegal settlements sponsored by Armenian government in Azerbaijan’s occupied lands have been discussed by UN and other international organizations on numerous occasions.
The protest letter of YAP says that the action of the Armenian side violates the norms and principles of the international law, runs counter to the four known resolutions of the UN Security Council, decisions of the Council of Europe and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. The Azerbaijani people reject the policy of settlement in Azerbaijani territories and do not intend to accept its legal results.
“The New Azerbaijan Party expresses deep concern of the Azerbaijani people over the settlement of Armenians in Nagorno Karabakh, calls on OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs to condemn unambiguously the “policy of settlement” that negates the results of the peace talks and impedes the constructive efforts towards the peaceful solution of the conflict and to take steps to prevent its negative results in time.”
It was also noted that the OSCE fact-finding mission said in its official report last year that about 15 000 Armenians were illegally resettled in the Azerbaijani territories. “While intensive and successive negotiations are going on toward the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group, the organizing “new Armenian settlement” in the occupied Nagorno Karabakh region of Azerbaijan can seriously damage these negotiations. An attempt to artificially change the demographic situation in this occupied territory, which has been cleansed from Azerbaijanis, aims at strengthening Armenia’s aggressive policy.
Artificial “armenization” of Azerbaijan’s occupied territories reminds of the repeat of history. In the 40-50s of the past century the Soviet government deported Armenian citizens of Azerbaijani origin to Azerbaijan and managed to change the demographic situation of Armenia through settling Armenians from foreign countries in these territories. An attempt is being made to repeat the history.”
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