BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 23. The Western Azerbaijan Community has strongly condemned the statement made by Canada's Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly on September 22, which is full of bias and slander against Azerbaijan, TurkicWorld reports.
The community expressed this in a statement.
"The Canadian minister makes a groundless accusation that Armenians were allegedly forced to leave the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, demonstrating a position that contradicts the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and serves to create tension in the region.
Canada, which turns a blind eye to the ethnic cleansing of one million Azerbaijanis by Armenia, which has kept Azerbaijani territories under occupation for thirty years and does not allow hundreds of thousands of Western Azerbaijanis to return to their native lands, has no moral right to talk about humanitarian issues," the statement reads.
The community highlighted that this reflects Canada's unwillingness to recognize the supremacy of international law achieved through Azerbaijan's full restoration of its sovereignty and territorial integrity and its attempts to reignite conflict in the region.
"We would like to bring to the attention of the Canadian minister, who refers to the principles of ‘self-determination’ to solve a problem that no longer exists, that this principle is relevant not for the issue she has stated but for the issue of the return of Azerbaijanis expelled from Armenia to their homeland and ensuring their rights there.
As the Western Azerbaijan Community, we strongly condemn this shameful statement and demand that the Canadian government withdraw this statement, show respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, and for the right of Azerbaijanis expelled from Armenia to safely return to their homeland," the statement concluded.
