Azərbaycanın Los Ancelesdəki Baş Konsulluğu erməni lobbisi tərəfindən Kaliforniya Ştat Assambleyasına qondarma "DQR"-in tanınması ilə bağlı təqdim olunmuş layihəsi ilə bağlı hərəkətə keçib.

Baş Konsulluğumuzdan Mia.az-a daxil olan məlumata görə, erməni lobbisinin məlum istəyi ilə əlaqədar Baş Konsulluğumuz rəsmilərə müraciət edib. Eyni zamanda, mayın 5-də Assambleyanın Qaydalar Komitəsində ermənilərin qondarma tələbinin müzakirəsi zamanı konsulluğumuz ingilis dilində press-reliz yayıb. 

Xəbərdə o da bildirilir ki, erməni lobbisi məlum qətnaməni Assambleyanın plenar iclasının müzakirəsinə mayın 8-də - Şuşanın işğalı günü çıxarılmasını planlaşdırır: «Qeyd edilməlidir ki, qətnaməni qəbul etmiş Qaydalar Komitəsinin bir üzvü Adrin Nazaryan erməni əsillidir. Komitənin sədr müavini Skott Vilkin isə həyat yoldaşı ermənidir».

 Baş Konsulluğumuz ingilis dilində Ermənistanın işğaalçılıq siyasəti və onun Azərbaycana və bölgəyə vurduğu zərərlər, həmçinin, mövcud vəvziyyətlə bağlı Kaliforniya Ştat Assambleyasına ünvanladığı müraciətin mətnini də təqdim edirik:

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«California State Assembly's Rules Committee caters to Armenian lobby»

 California State Assembly's Rules Committee held on May 5 a hearing on the pro-Armenian resolution (AJR 32) against Azerbaijan, introduced by Assemblyman Mike Gatto at the behest of the Armenian lobby. If passed by both houses of the State Legislature, the resolution would call on U.S.

Government to recognize the puppet regime called "NKR" which was installed

on Azerbaijan's lands occupied by Armenia.

Before the hearing started, many members of California's Azerbaijani

community held a protest action outside the State Capitol in Sacramento

against this biased and flawed resolution.

Azerbaijanis then packed the hearing room on the Capitol, hugely

outnumbering the Armenian participants. The hearing started with remarks by

Mike Gatto, followed by the Armenian member of the Assembly Katcho

Achadjian, who presented a well distorted view of the conflict. Following

these remarks the chair opened the floor for testimonies from the Armenian

side, who offered three presentations void of any logic and content. In a

nutshell, their main racist message could be summed up as "Armenians are

ancient Christians and Azerbaijanis are Muslims. So whatever we do, you

should support us."

After the Armenian testimonies ended, the Azerbaijani side presented four

testimonies. Taking the floor first, the Head of Azerbaijan's Mountainous

Jewish Community Milikh Yevdayev spoke of the strong traditions of

tolerance in Azerbaijan highlighting primarily the life of Azerbaijan's

ancient Jewish community, who, he said, lived in Azerbaijan since 2000

years without any persecution or discrimination. Recalling his countless

trips to Nagorno-Karabakh during the Soviet times, Mr Yevdayev noted that

never ever he witnessed any Armenian wishing to get separated from

Azerbaijan. "Armenians enjoyed living in Azerbaijan – in this multi-ethnic

and tolerant society,” he said. Mr. Yevdayev stressed that "despite much

blood and tears shed, military occupation and ethnic cleansing committed

against Azerbaijan by Armenia, today you can find over 25,000 Armenians

still living in Baku and other major cities of Azerbaijan, which speaks

volumes about the high level of tolerance of the Azerbaijani people.” At

the end, he called on the Committee to reject the resolution.

Speaking afterwards, the President of the Azerbaijani-American Council Dr.

Ismayil Rustamov stressed that so-called "NKR” had not been recognized by

the U.S or any other country of the world. "So why in this case would

California need to do it?” he asked. Highlighting Armenia’s foreign policy,

Dr Rustamov said that during the Crimea crisis Armenia sided with countries

such as North Korea, Syria and Sudan. "Azerbaijan, however, has always been

a reliable ally of the U.S.,” he said.

Following these remarks, Mr. Elnur Aydinov from Los Angeles told his and

his family’s story as a victim of the ethnic cleansing carried out by

Armenia against its own Azerbaijani population, who before 1988 amounted to

more than 350,000, and who were all expelled when the conflict started.

The testimonies were concluded with a presentation by Mr. Tural

Badirkhanli. He said: "The resolution refers to the "national liberation

movement” in Nagorno-Karabakh and deliberately neglects to mention how this

so-called "movement” was carried out in reality. Based on facts, I will

tell you how: through many horrible war crimes that Armenia committed

against the Azerbaijani civilians.” Mr Badirkhanli broadly informed the

audience about the Khojaly Massacre which was committed by Armenian armed

forces against the Azerbaijani civilians in 1992 and which was called by

Human Rights Watch the "largest massacre in the conflict.” He concluded his

testimony by urging the legislators not to "reward” Armenia for the Khojaly

Massacre and other war crimes it committed.

Then the chair asked the Committee members if they had any comments. Taking

the floor, Assemblyman Rocky Chavez expressed his opposition to the

resolution, by stating that the Legislature should be very careful with

international affairs. Referring to the Azerbaijani testimonies on ethnic

cleansing by Armenia against Azerbaijanis, he implied that the

self-determination cannot be achieved with ethnic cleansing. The

Assemblyman also mentioned that if applied everywhere around the globe, the

principle of self-determination can precipitate grave consequences for the

world. Speaking afterwards, the Armenian member of the Committee Adrin

Nazarian, the pro-Armenian members Scott Wilk and Cheryl Brown, who

illegally visited Nagorno-Karabakh last year, offered extremely distorted

and biased views on the conflict. Highlighting only the needs of Karabakh’s

Armenians for life in dignity, they did not even consider it necessary to

touch on human sufferings that over a million Azerbaijani refugees had to

endure due to ethnic cleansing and occupation by Armenia. They completely

ignored the vast body of evidence presented to them on the conflict by the

Azerbaijani side and concentrated instead on the Armenian propaganda.

Following the remarks, the chair put the resolution to vote that passed 9

to 1.

Now, the Armenian lobby has announced that the resolution will be

considered on the Assembly floor on May 8. This is not a randomly chosen

date. May 8 is the 22nd anniversary of the occupation of the city of Shusha

– the cradle of Azerbaijani music and culture in Karabakh – by Armenia. The

1992 occupation was carried out with brutal ethnic cleansing and resulted

in the killing of hundreds of Azerbaijanis. So with the passage of the

resolution on this day, the Armenian lobby wants to "celebrate" this

"victory", which was achieved at the expense of many innocent Azerbaijani

lives and ongoing suffering of refugees from Shusha and other occupied

regions. That’s simply immoral and disgraceful.