Baku, Azerbaijan, March 25. Heads of religious
confessions in Azerbaijan have sent an appeal to the UK Prime
Minister Keir Starmer, Trend reports.
The letter expresses deep concern regarding a letter addressed
to the prime minister by the head of the Armenian Church diocese in
the UK and Ireland, Bishop Ovakim Manukyan, and several other
religious figures in the UK.
“This letter, which views political events in our region through
the lens of religion, contains distorted information and is, in
essence, part of efforts aimed at undermining the existing peace
process between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The only reason for the
conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia for more than 30 years was
the occupation of the Karabakh region of our country by Armenia.
Now that Azerbaijan has liberated its territories and restored
sovereignty and territorial integrity within internationally
recognized borders, the conflict is over.
The Armenian citizens currently standing trial in Azerbaijan are
not ‘prisoners’ or ‘prisoners of war’. There is ample credible and
specific evidence that, between 1991–2023 and in the final years of
the USSR, during Armenia’s military aggression against Azerbaijan,
they committed serious war crimes against Azerbaijanis. The 2019
report on war crimes in the occupied territories of the Republic of
Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia’s responsibility, published
as an official document of the UN General Assembly and Security
Council (A/74/676 – S/2020/90), contains detailed information about
the crimes against humanity committed by Armenians during the
occupation of Azerbaijani territories: https://t.co/bSVDxuJYSZ”.
Will be updated