BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 15. All our cities
and villages located in Garabagh and East Zangezur were razed to
the ground. Ethnic cleansing was carried out against our people.
Nearly one million Azerbaijanis were displaced from their native
lands as a result of the ethnic cleansing policy of the Armenian
state, President Ilham Aliyev said during his meeting with the participants of international
conferences in Baku.
“Major states supporting Armenia sought not to resolve the
issue, but to prolong it and make the occupation permanent. By
providing military, economic, and political support to Armenia,
these states were effectively rewarding the aggressor.
The Azerbaijani people put an end to this injustice and
established a global precedent. Because until then, occupied lands,
unfortunately, were not being liberated. At any rate, such
instances were not encountered in the 20th and 21st centuries, or
were encountered only on very rare occasions,” the President
emphasized.
To note, on September 15, President of the Republic of
Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received Kubanychbek Omuraliev, Secretary
General of the Organization of Turkic States, members and observers
of the Council of Heads of Muslim Religious Boards of the
Organization of Turkic States, as well as a delegation comprising
co-organizers of the Yahya Bakuvi International Conference and
members of the Supreme Religious Council of Caucasian Peoples.
