Peruvian parliament adopts resolution on Khojaly genocide

The parliament of Peru has passed a resolution to recognize the Khojaly genocide.

According to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the document says that the last stage of Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict started late in 1987 as the attacks by Armenians against Azerbaijanis in Khankendi intensified. The increase in Armenians` attacks in 1988-1989 and the disruption of political stability in the USSR in next years lead to the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis, the document says.

“On the night of February 25-26, 1992, a terrible massacre was committed against Azerbaijanis in the town of Khojaly in Azerbaijan. Consequently, 613 people including women and children were killed, 1275 people were taken hostage, 150 people went missing, 487 people became disabled, 26 children lost both parents and 130 children lost one of the parents. Following the attack estimated as a genocide and fully documented, Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions were occupied by Armenian armed forces.”

The document notes four resolutions adopted by the UN Security Council on the conflict. It also stresses that UN Security Council has once again confirmed respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability of international borders by these resolutions.

The resolution says that Azerbaijan had seen tens of billions of dollars of damage as a result of the conflict. The document says that “although ceasefire was declared on May 12, 1994 at the OSCE Budapest Summit, it has been violated and such cases have intensified since 2003.”
The proposals made by the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Peruvian Congress to the plenary session are as follows:

“1. Expressing respect for the sovereignty of the Armenian and Azerbaijani peoples, the Congress of the Republic of Peru calls on the governments of the countries to reach agreement in an appropriate format as soon as possible to put an end to the conflict.

2. Mentioning that the injustice underwent by the conflict victims in terms of Khojaly massacre has not been eliminated yet, we should announce that the possible measures that will contribute to the strengthening of relations between peoples must be a key element of any peace agreement.”


/AzerTAc/