Incident occurs in roundtable on Nagorno Karabakh conflict in Moscow

Chairman of Russia’s Islamic Committee Heydar Jamal, who attended the meeting, said the incident was due to participation of the separatist regime representative at the meeting.

“We demanded that he should participate in the event as an individual, not as the representative of Nagorno-Karabakh. As his words were a political statement, but not what a participant was expected to say, he was immediately expelled from the roundtable,” he said.

Jamal said there were more Armenians than Azerbaijanis in the discussions adding that Rasim Musabayov and Avaz Hasanov represented Azerbaijan.

“Though I was invited to the roundtable as the chairman of Russia’s Islamic Committee, I can be considered the person who represented Azerbaijan, sinceI support Azerbaijan’s position in Nagorno-Karabakh issue,” he said.

Jamal believes that Nagorno-Karabakh conflict would have been impossible, if it had not been for Russia support to Armenia.  

“Taking into account these two moments, we had an opportunity to express our views. The injustice of the Armenian experts caused negative climate, and made a nonprofessional analysis into the situation.”

“As usual, the meeting did not emphasize the major issues. Less time was allotted for speeches, but the Armenians spoke more, as more Armenians attended the roundtable and they did not obey the regulations. I told the participants that the countries around the South Caucasus – Iran, Turkey, Russia, Europe are not interested in the settlement of the conflict, as they use the current situation for their interests,” Jamal said.

“Russia does not want the conflict to end without its participation, because always, in the Soviet times, anti-Azerbaijan lobby that united around Beria demonstrated solidarity with the national interests of Armenians. Russia played anti-Azerbaijan role in the Soviet times and in the post-Soviet history. Russia is interested in the protraction of the conflict. Earlier, there was Azerbaijan-Turkey unity against Armenia and Iran. Now, due to the new format of Armenia-Turkey relations, Azerbaijan has been ringed by Iran, Armenia, distancing Turkey and Moscow that supports Yerevan-Tehran line. The role of the West is also obscure. So, Azerbaijan is in a strategic isolation,” he said.

/APA/