AZERBAIJAN`S PERMANENT REPRESENTATION TO CoE ORGANIZES CEREMONY TO MARK 17TH ANNIVERSARY OF KHOJALY GENOCIDE

Paris, February 27 (AzerTAc). The permanent representation of Azerbaijan to the Council of Europe with support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation organized Thursday in Strasbourg a ceremony to commemorate the17th anniversary of the Khojaly genocide.

The event was attended by representatives of the Azerbaijani and Turkish Diaspora
organizations, officials of the Turkish Consulate General and others.
Speakers at the event spoke of the crimes committed by Armenians against
Azerbaijanis. The event`s participants were handed over Heydar Aliyev
Foundation-prepared editions featuring Armenians` savageries against the Azerbaijani
people and Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. They also saw a documentary on the massacre.
Azerbaijan`s permanent representative to the Council of Europe Arif Mammadov briefed
the attendees on the acts of genocide perpetrated by Armenians against the
Azerbaijanis. He also spoke of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation`s efforts towards making
the world community known about the Khojaly massacre. Mammadov called on the world
community to recognize the tragedy as “genocide.”
It was also stressed during the event “those committed the Khojaly tragedy must be
punished.”
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