Shavarsh Kocharyan, `Baku leadership must become watchful eventually;
its behavior will only create new problems for very Azerbaijan’
YEREVAN, JULY 23, ARMENPRESS: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev
signed an order on giving a posthumous title of hero to Mubariz
Ibrahimov who was killed as a result of the provocation organized
against the Karabakhi posts. Five Armenians have been killed and 3
Armenians – injured as a result of the subversive act. On the decision
of the Azerbaijani President, a secondary school and a street will be
named after Ibrahimov.
Commenting on this behavior of Baku, Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister
Shavarsh Kocharyan noted that first it must be registered that the
person who has organized the provocation has been awarded, and has
been awarded for fulfilling his task. `Second, it is pitiful that our
neighbor people gain such an image, that is, to glorify the authors of
the Sumgayit massacres, who committed horrible violence against the
peaceful population, to make Ramil Safarov a hero, who treacherously
killed an Armenian officer at night and to glorify this – to intrude
at night and try to kill as much people as possible.
In the end, an image of a murderer with bloody axe in his hand is
developing. Is his what the Azerbaijani leadership wants? Murderers
and not fighters are brought up with this style.
Their every-day war rhetoric only proves about their weakness, the
attacker will attack and will not undertake furtive actions. I think
it is already obvious for everybody that either the Baku leadership
must eventually become watchful and sit at the negotiations table, or
its way of activity will only create new and new problems for very
Azerbaijan,’ the Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia said.
From: A. Papazian