“I am glad to visit Azerbaijan. Unfortunately, the Kurds living in the west have completely wrong information about the developments in Azerbaijan. We thought that Azerbaijanis deported and killed Kurds during Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. I saw quite a different view in Azerbaijan. It turned out that Kurds had undergone deportation and genocide by Armenians several times. During the Soviet period Kurds were deported from Armenia, and later when the Armenians occupied Azerbaijani territories the Kurds were deported again. Azerbaijani government and people received the Kurds, defended them and gave ethnic rights to them,” he said.

Cheto Omari said the Kurds had all democratic rights in Azerbaijan and added that the Kurds had cultural centers and a radio program. “I hope Azerbaijani Kurds will achieve more progress. These two nations lived together for centuries. I assure you that none of the Kurds living here had a negative opinion of Azerbaijan. They regard the Azerbaijanis as their brothers. In Azerbaijan Kurds obtained the rights they had been deprived of in Armenia,” he said.

Touching on the relations with Azerbaijani Diaspora in Sweden Cheto Omari said the relations were not close.

“Azerbaijan has gained its independence recently, formation of Diaspora takes time. Unfortunately, we had information about joint struggle of Kurds with Armenians. I will speak about everything I saw in Azerbaijan to the Kurdish Diaspora. We will soon come to Azerbaijan with larger delegation,” he said.