Azerbaijan cashing in on OIC religious sentiments
04.06.2009,
18:38
Azerbaijan is cashing in on the religious sentiments of the member-countries of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), RA Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan said, commenting an anti-Armenian resolution adopted by the 36th conference of
YEREVAN, July 4. /ARKA/. Azerbaijan is cashing in on the religious sentiments of the member-countries of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), RA Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan said, commenting an anti-Armenian resolution adopted by the 36th conference of the OIC Foreign Ministers in Damascus.
“Resolutions like that have hardly been adopted over the last year except for this one,” Kocharyan said in his interview to Novosti-Armenia. He said that “Azerbaijan’s rhetoric proved effective” at one time because “not everyone knows and remembers”.
“It is no coincidence that Azerbaijan has made repeated statements on the ineffectiveness of the OSCE Minsk Group and pronounced for going beyond its format. The reason is that the OSCE Minsk Group is well informed of the genesis of the conflict, all the details unknown to many international organizations,” Sh. Kocharyan said.
He said that, making successive attempts to pervert the truth about the conflict and about its aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh, Baku is trying to present it as a territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan. “They have succeeded to a certain extent, but this is the limit,” Sh. Kocharyan said.
According to him, OIC is the only organization where Azerbaijan recently managed to railroad the traditional resolution. “We deeply regret the fact that Azerbaijan is cashing in on the religious sentiments of the IOC member-states to push resolutions like this through it,” he said.
Sh. Kocharyan also pointed out it is extremely dangerous because the future is a dialogue, not a clash, between civilizations. “Even during the military stage of the conflict the problem of self-determination was not presented in a religious aspect. Azerbaijan is overstepping the limits,” Kocharyan said. –0--
“Resolutions like that have hardly been adopted over the last year except for this one,” Kocharyan said in his interview to Novosti-Armenia. He said that “Azerbaijan’s rhetoric proved effective” at one time because “not everyone knows and remembers”.
“It is no coincidence that Azerbaijan has made repeated statements on the ineffectiveness of the OSCE Minsk Group and pronounced for going beyond its format. The reason is that the OSCE Minsk Group is well informed of the genesis of the conflict, all the details unknown to many international organizations,” Sh. Kocharyan said.
He said that, making successive attempts to pervert the truth about the conflict and about its aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh, Baku is trying to present it as a territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan. “They have succeeded to a certain extent, but this is the limit,” Sh. Kocharyan said.
According to him, OIC is the only organization where Azerbaijan recently managed to railroad the traditional resolution. “We deeply regret the fact that Azerbaijan is cashing in on the religious sentiments of the IOC member-states to push resolutions like this through it,” he said.
Sh. Kocharyan also pointed out it is extremely dangerous because the future is a dialogue, not a clash, between civilizations. “Even during the military stage of the conflict the problem of self-determination was not presented in a religious aspect. Azerbaijan is overstepping the limits,” Kocharyan said. –0--
