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Azerbaijani ombudsman urges world community to give objective assessment to 31 March genocide

30 March 2011 [09:17] - TODAY.AZ
Azerbaijani Ombudsman urged the world community to give an objective assessment to 31 March political genocide. In this regard, the Ombudsman Elmira Suleymanova sent a statement to the international organizations, the Ombudsman Office reported.

"The world community should finally give an objective assessment to political violence continued today against the Azerbaijani people, the perpetrators must be brought to condign punishment," the statement says.

The Ombudsman calls on international organizations avoiding double standards to support Azerbaijan's fair position.

"Calling on authoritative international organizations to support Azerbaijan’s legal demands, I express faith in the rapid restoration of justice, imposing sanctions by competent international organizations against the Armenian government that turned the genocide into a part of its policy, in the restoration of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity and violated rights of refugees and IDPs, the release of prisoners and hostages," Suleymanova said.

The statement addressed to the UN Secretary General, Deputy Secretary General, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Commission, Council of Europe, OSCE, international and European ombudsman institutions, the Asian Ombudsman Association, the International Peace Bureau, the Universal Peace Federation, ombudsmen of different countries, Azerbaijan’s embassies abroad, foreign embassies in our country and Azerbaijani diaspora organizations.


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