Foreign media
Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom Tahir Taghizade addressed a letter to “The Guardian” in response to the newspaper’s distorted article about the clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which erupted on September 27.
In his letter, the diplomat noted that Nagorno-Karabakh is not a “disputed” region.
“It is an internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan occupied and ethnically cleansed by Armenia together with seven adjacent regions of Azerbaijan in flagrant violation of international law,” he said.
Ambassador Taghizade pointed out that four UN security council resolutions, adopted in 1993 (822, 853, 874, 884) and demanding immediate withdrawal of the Armenian occupying forces from all occupied regions of Azerbaijan, remain unfulfilled.
He added: “To consolidate its occupation policy, Armenia established an illegal regime, the so-called “Nagorno-Karabakh Republic” (NKR), on the occupied lands of Azerbaijan. This puppet regime has not been recognized by the international community including Armenia itself. Thus, there is no such thing as “Nagorno-Karabakh military staff”.”
According to the prosecutor general’s office of Azerbaijan, five members of a family were killed as a result of shelling by the Armenian armed forces against the civilian population of Azerbaijan on 27 September.
Armenia bears full responsibility for the recent outbreak of hostilities, which it started and is a direct result of its decade-long policy of occupation and aggression.