A meeting of community members and representatives of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Civil Peace Platform was held at the office of the Azerbaijani community of Nagorno-Karabakh, Eurasia Diary reports.
The head of the Azerbaijani community, Tural Ganjaliyev, spoke about the pain of the Azerbaijani residents of Nagorno-Karabakh, who were forced to leave their homes, and their ardent desire to return to their homes. He stated that Azerbaijani community of Nagorno Karabakh is ready to constructive dialogue with Armenian side on the solution of the conflict and ensuring the steady peace.sustainable regional stability and security and expressed confidence that the Azerbaijani and Armenian communities of Nagorno-Karabakh are able to live in peace again within the framework of internationally recognized borders, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. Tural Ganjaliyev noted the desire and readiness of the internally displaced persons of Azerbaijan for a peaceful settlement of the conflict, but at the same time - their ability to defend their lands at the price of blood. Tural Ganjaliyev noted that the arrival of brave people in Baku who were not afraid of threats from the Armenian lobby can be regarded as the basis for future human relations between the Azerbaijani and Armenian diasporas. "Only such persons can deliver the truth about what is what and who is who. Maybe, such persons can convey the concept of Evil and Good to ordinary people lives in Armenia and Karabakh. Today people who are in the barricades understand necessity of the recognition of Azerbaijani border integrity, start of friendship and holding relations again." He also said the representatives of the Azerbaijani community are ready to go to Karabakh by the initiative of peace and urged the Armenian authorities and representatives of the Armenian community of Karabakh to support this initiative and to ensure the start of the dialogue.
Erik Khachaturov, a member of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Civil Peace Platform, spoke about his position on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, saying that thousands of Armenians who had to leave Azerbaijan considered here as their homeland and wished to return to their previous lives in a peaceful and friendly neighborhood. He noted that the separatist policy in Armenia, the anti-Azerbaijani nationalist propaganda and falsification of historical truths have an impact on the consciousness of the younger growing generation. That is why Erik Khachaturov took his son and his wife in this visit to see that the anti-Azerbaijani propaganda was biased when the young people saw the development of Azerbaijan, the openness and hospitality of indigenous people. He called on the unification of the political will of the two countries for the peaceful settlement of the 30-year conflict and the common ideas of the Azerbaijani and Armenian peoples.
Speaking about the tasks of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Civil Peace Platform, Dilara Efendiyeva talked about the initiatives for supporting the peaceful settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and in order to achieve a "peace agreement" it is needed to eliminate the factor of aggression between the two countries. Promotion of peace and future steps should be highly appreciated. People have long been hoping for peace to become reality, and now it is necessary to make concrete efforts to increase confidence in the reality of this process. People have long been hoping for peace to become reality, and now it is necessary to make serious efforts to increase confidence in the realization of this process.
These steps will lead to serious consequences, solution of humanitarian problems, as well as liberation of lands and the creation of conditions for IDPs to return to their homes. The beginning of the liberation of lands and the solution of humanitarian issues will have a very strong impact on the existing tension in society.
Members of the Azerbaijani community of Nagorno Karabakh Khatira Valiyeva, Gulnar Alakbarova, Ahmed Mahmudov and Narmina Badalova also shared their views on the peaceful settlement of the conflict and the desire of all IDPs to return to their homes. They noted that they live in the neighborhood where they shared their joy and grief, and grew up in an equally welcoming land. And they said that the two friendly people separated only a long period of political confrontation.
