Azerbaijani MP: Armenia does not reckon with resolutions of international organizations

Armenia does not reckon with the resolutions of the international organizations, including the resolutions of the UN Security Council, and hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijani women refugees and internally displaced persons are waiting for severe protest against this injustice and support to return to their ancestral lands, MP Ganira Pashayeva, said in her speech at the World Conference on Women in Beijing.

World Conference on Women started in Beijing. Attending the event, women ministers, first ladies, political leaders, businesswomen and women holding various senior positions in their countries discuss and make concrete proposals on increasing the role of women managers of large companies in the public-political life, government and society, especially in the fields of economics and business.

Before the official opening of the summit, a meeting was held with the participation of women ministers from different countries to discuss various issues. At the invitation of the President of the Summit Irene Natvidad, MP Ganira Pashayeva also joined these discussions and provided women ministers with extensive information about Azerbaijan.  

The MP spoke about the problems faced by Azerbaijan during re-gaining its independence. She said that as a result of Armenia's ongoing policy of ethnic cleansing, more than 200,000 Azerbaijanis have become refugees, forcibly expelled from their ancestral lands in 1988.

"After this, Armenia has started pursuing a policy of occupation against Azerbaijan, occupied 20% of Azerbaijan's territories and more than 15 years, one million Azerbaijani refugees and IDPs have not been able to return to their native lands," said Pashayeva.

The MP, who spoke about acts of vandalism and genocide on the Armenian-occupied territories of Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijanis who are in Armenian captivity, provided participants with books and materials about the realities of Karabakh, prepared by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.

Pashayeva also provided participants with information on the situation of women in Azerbaijan. She reported on the activities of the State Committee for Family, Women and Children, and said that there is a positive fact that in the last municipal elections, the number of women represented in the municipalities accounted for about 30%.

Reporting on the growing role of women in economics, business, Pashayeva noted that an important place in the policy of the Azerbaijani state is to increase the role of women in government and society, business and economics. "We expect even greater achievements in this regard in the future," said the MP.

Pashayeva also spoke about the successful results of projects carried out on women, children, education, culture and other fields under the leadership of the President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO and ISESCO, First Lady of Azerbaijan Mehriban Aliyeva. Pashayeva noted that, as a non-governmental organization, the Heydar Aliyev Foundation carries out its projects not only in Azerbaijan, but also the Foundation became the author of many important projects abroad. As an example of supporting women's education, Pashayeva set Heydar Aliyev Foundation's construction of girls' school in Pakistan, in the area affected by the earthquake.


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