Azerbaijan intensifies anti-Armenian propaganda in PACE - Armenian  delegation tries to resist

ArmInfo.Azerbaijan stepped up anti-Armenian propaganda in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, so on the margins of the PACE summer session, on the initiative of the Azerbaijani side, two events took place - the first  was devoted to the issue of Azerbaijani refugees and internally  displaced persons, the second - the fate of those arrested in Artsakh  for the murder of saboteurs Shahbaz Guliyev and Dilham Askerov.

As the substitute member of the Armenian delegation to PACE, deputy  from the ruling faction "My step" Tatevik Hayrapetyan, explained on  her Facebook page, the main purpose of the event on the issue of  Azerbaijani refugees was to introduce Azerbaijan's policy to solve  the problems of refugees and internally displaced persons. Among the  speakers was the Vice-Chairman of the State Committee for Refugees  and Internally Displaced Persons Fuad Huseynov. According to  Hayrapetyan, Huseynov, however, put the main accents of his speech  not on the policy of Azerbaijan on the issue of refugees, but on  voicing accusations against Armenia. Hayrapetyan herself and another  member of the Armenian delegation from the Prosperous Armenia Party,  Naira Zohrabyan, refuted the theses put forward by Huseynov and  considered it impermissible to organize similar events within the  PACE framework, where only one party to the conflict is represented -  Azerbaijan amid the absence of officials representing the other two  the parties are Armenia and Artsakh.

At another event organized by the Azerbaijani delegation to the PACE,  during which the fate of two Azerbaijani saboteurs was discussed, and  which was also attended by the son of one of the saboteurs, an  attempt was made to give the issue a humanitarian character. "The  Azerbaijani delegation accused the Armenian side of allegedly"  ill-treatment "of saboteurs, standard accusations were addressed to  Armenia, false information was presented and video was shown," said  Hayrapetyan.  In her response, however, Hayrapetyan, stressed that  this is not a "humanitarian" question, as the Azerbaijanis are trying  to present - this is a criminal case. <I stressed that such  speculations in the Council of Europe are unacceptable, attempts to  present criminals in a humanitarian context are unacceptable. I  informed the audience that as a result of the actions of the  saboteurs 2 people were killed, one of whom was a 17-year-old young  man, one woman was injured. Despite all this, representatives of the  Red Cross are in constant contact with the saboteurs, "said  Hayrapetyan.

She also stressed that Armenia will not allow new cases of  glorification of the murderers and called for an end to the process  of creating the new Safarovs (Azerbaijani soldier, heroized for the  murder of an Armenian officer, ed.). "In conclusion, I urged to look  for cases of human rights violations in our own country, where there  is no shortage of this, since many people are in prisons because of  their political views," the deputy summed up.