BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 20. The Azerbaijani
parliament strongly condemns and firmly rejects unilateral and
biased resolutions passed by the Houses of Representatives of
Belgium and the Netherlands, aimed at undermining the
Azerbaijan-Armenia peace process, the statement of the parliament
says, Trend
reports.


According to the statement, the documents present the sovereign
territory of Azerbaijan in a distorted form and are based on false
claims and baseless accusations.


The statement noted that these documents, which distort the
history and consequences of the conflict between Azerbaijan and
Armenia, stemming from the unhealthy and racist imagination of
traditional anti-Azerbaijani, Islamophobic circles, are a gross
violation of international law and the rule of law, and a
provocation against the ongoing and sensitive peace process in the
region:


"The adoption of these documents, especially at a time when the
next meeting of the parliamentary speakers of Azerbaijan and
Armenia took place, clearly shows that their 'initiators' are far
from the realities in the region, and their true intention is not
to promote peace and dialogue, but to incite hostility and
revenge.


The absence of any reference to the historic Washington Peace
Summit in the document adopted by the Belgian House of
Representatives, the failure to mention the summit's results,
including the initialing of the Agreement on the Establishment of
Peace and Interstate Relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia, is
another clear example of the 'literacy' and chronic bias of the
authors of the document and those who voted in its favor on the
subject.


The assessments of the authors of the document, who consider the
situation on the Azerbaijani-Armenian border to be militarily risky
and present this as the basis for the continued activity of the
European Union Monitoring Mission in Armenia, contradict, first of
all, the publicly announced position of Armenian officials. It is
precisely as a result of the peace-oriented steps and responsible
behavior of the Azerbaijani side that the last two years have been
characterized as the quietest period on the border, when no
military incidents have occurred, and this is also confirmed by
Armenia.


Labeling individuals who have been proven to have committed war
crimes and crimes against humanity through a transparent and open
legal process as 'prisoners of war' and demanding their release
mean, first of all, an attack on the norms of international law,
human rights and the rule of law referred to in the aforementioned
documents.


"The fact that all the rights of those convicted individuals
were protected during the investigation and trial process, and the
legality of their trial has been established by relevant impartial
international mechanisms. In this context, it should be
particularly noted that the appeals made by Armenia regarding the
release of those individuals, as well as the taking of measures
against Azerbaijan in connection with their trial process, have
been rejected several times by the International Court of
Justice.


Similarly, the relevant opinion of the UN Human Rights Council
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention dated March 13, 2025,
established the legality of the arrest and trial of the individuals
mentioned by Azerbaijan, and upheld the claims of violation of
their rights.


We expect the relevant states to which the above-mentioned
unjustified calls were addressed, as well as the European Union, to
refrain from disruptive interference in the peace process, which is
being vigorously promoted through bilateral dialogue, and we call
on them to take the necessary measures to prevent the recurrence of
such provocative steps.


The Azerbaijani parliament demanded from the Belgian and Dutch
parliaments to stop the hate campaign against Azerbaijan and steps
that undermine efforts to strengthen peace in the region. These
steps not only serve to encourage revanchist forces operating
against peace at this sensitive stage, but also to undermine the
declared security and economic interests of the European Union in
the region," the statement emphasized.


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