Azerbaijani community in Netherlands against draft resolution of French Senate

The Azerbaijani community living in the Kingdom of the Netherlands strongly condemned the draft resolution presented by six members of the French Senate against Azerbaijan, Report informs, citing the State Committee for Work with Diaspora.

The statements addressed to the French senators on behalf of the European Azerbaijani Women's Union “Ana Vatan” (“Motherland”), Benelux Azerbaijani Congress, and International Azerbaijani Ladies’ Club, noted that the Azerbaijanis of the Netherlands strongly rejected this draft resolution.

“Our compatriots evaluated the project as a completely biased and one-sided view of the situation in the South Caucasus region and emphasized that the Azerbaijanis of the Netherlands see the groundless accusations against our Motherland as accusations against them.

They noted that the draft resolution did not show that millions of Azerbaijanis were deprived of fundamental human rights during the 30-year occupation and subjected to war crimes, and Azerbaijan was presented as an aggressor:

“This kind of prejudice, favoring one nation, discriminating against another, and blindly condemning it, is a public manifestation of national intolerance and racism!”

It was especially emphasized that the demands in Paragraph 20 of the draft resolution that Azerbaijan should ensure “the right of return of the displaced (Armenians)”, “the preservation of Armenian cultural and religious heritage” and the accusation in Paragraph 21 of committing “mass crimes” and a call to investigate this accusation at the International Criminal Court. are inadmissible and unacceptable.

“Our community invited the senators to think about the war crimes committed by Armenia in Azerbaijan and strongly condemned France’s silence on the killing of innocent Azerbaijani children.”

They asked the French senators such rhetorical and legitimate questions as “Do not Azerbaijani children who were torn to pieces and mutilated in their cradles at night deserve the attention of the members of the Senate?”, “Do you deprive the Azerbaijani refugees of this right, unlike the Armenians who left Karabakh, who are much smaller in number?”, “Do the members of the French Senate think that the history, culture, and religion of Azerbaijan are less valuable than those of other nations of the Caucasus?”, “What is the reason for such open discrimination?”

The Azerbaijanis of the Netherlands accused the authors of the draft resolution of trying to increase tension in the region, demanded that those forces not hinder the negotiation process with biased accusations and sanctions, and called on the French Senate to act in the service of peace, stability, and progress in the region.