Why Pashazade’s speech is not a cause of conflict, but Garegin II’s “deviation” prayer

President of the Caucasus Muslim Department, Sheikhulislam Allahshukyur Pashazaden, organized by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations in Angola at the event speaking about the need to settle the current and Russian-Ukrainian conflicts in the Middle East, this time he did not bypass the Armenians, he drew the attention of the participants of the summit dedicated to Armenia and peace to the “Khojalu Genocide” and claimed that “the Azerbaijani people were victims of a mass massacre”.

“The international community should know this terrible truth and give a fair assessment to the Khojaly Genocide.”

Today, when wars continue in the world, we must, relying on international law, work and pray for the victory of justice and lasting peace, and not for fragile ceasefire regimes, as well as for the peaceful settlement of conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine,” he stated, adding that “mass murders, committed on national, racial and religious grounds, and forever etched in the memory of mankind, are among the greatest and unforgivable against people or humanity. among crimes”.

And this is said by the spiritual leader of a country that has done what is described here to Armenians on national and religious grounds. It is enough to mention the Baku, Sumgait pogroms, Maragha genocide, which Baroness Caroline Cox called “20th century Calvary”, the ethnic cleansing in Artsakh in September 2023 and the war crimes committed at various times before that. We are still not talking about the Armenian Genocide committed by Ottoman Turkey in 1915.

And this statement of Pashazade confirms ours the claim that Aliyev did not and will not remove the “Khojalu Genocide” issue from the political agenda, otherwise he would not have built a memorial, this also applies to the “Ganja incidents”.

The other day we wrote About the direct confessions from Baku that the struggle against Yerevan in the field of the Karabakh conflict is not over.

And the remarkable thing here is that, in particular, Pashazade’s statement will not be considered a cause of conflict by Aliyev, who is going with Armenia, while Nikol Pashinyan considers any question about the recognition of the Armenian Genocide in Armenia to be a cause of conflict. Moreover, in March of this year, Pashinyan during a briefing with journalists belligerent considered giving the name “Artsakh” sometimes during liturgies and prayers in the church.

“Regarding the question of why I say that the Church, Kprich Nersisyan and his group, took over the leadership of the war party, it has a very simple explanation. I go to liturgy and I see that during the liturgy they refer to the Republic of Artsakh and so on, and there is no such thing in the text of the liturgy, they deviate from the text of the liturgy. What does that mean, it means conflict, that is, we refer to the Republic of Artsakh and so on, it first means conflict, and then, if we adopt that theory, we have to go to conflict on the way of that theory, so how do we solve it?

Every such sentence means a call to war: today, tomorrow, the next day, the day after that, I don’t know, but it means a call to war. When they say: Republic of Artsakh from every pulpit, they have stepped on the road to war.

Every time we say this, Azerbaijan, in its turn, develops its speech. They say: return, what kind of return, where to return, is there a topic of return of refugees, but Azerbaijan is putting forward the same thing in the same way. Those topics will develop, develop, clash with each other and become a war,” Pashinyan stated, stressing that they decide the foreign policy and that the Declaration of Independence will not be referenced in the new Constitution.

And the Azerbaijani demand for the recognition of the “Khojalu Genocide” is absolutely not conditional on whether Artsakh and the Armenian Genocide will be talked about in Armenia, otherwise, we would see a completely different picture in a mirror manner, in line with or equivalent to the demands and speech of the RA authorities.

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