Azerbaijan, Baku / Т corr. S.Ilhamgizi / The Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) demand to make answerable a group of NGOs and journalists of Azerbaijan as they visited Armenia which on 17 December, a source stated from KLO.
Ganja and Agstafa-Gazakh representatives of the Azerbaijani Committee of Helsinki Civil Assemblyand director of the Centre of Human Being in Mingachevir region Jiansh Omar, journalist Seymur Baycan, head of the agency The third view Rauf Rajabov and head of the Consensus NGO Afat Sariyeva paid a visit to Yerevan in order to attend at the event called Days of Azerbaijan in Yerevan which will last from 17 to 23 December.
KLO considers the visit by Azerbaijanis to Yerevan will cause damage on national interests of Azerbaijan. The latest thirteen years Armenia attempt world community to forget occupation fact by using different forms of popular diplomacy. The event is also directed to insult Azerbaijani population.
Armenia was recognized as an aggressor and enemy country in the National Conception of Azerbaijan. The people which paid a visit to Armenia violated the conception and they must be answerable.
"Law enforcement bodies should carry out immediate measures in connection with the visit to Armenia. Otherwise, we will take measures to prevent such a betrayal within the framework of our opportunities.
The representative of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Khazar Ibrahim stated that the visit by Azerbaijanis to Armenia may inform Armenians about Azerbaijani realities.
The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began in 1988 due to Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since 1992, Armenian Armed Forces have occupied 20% of Azerbaijan including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and its seven surrounding districts. In 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which time the active hostilities ended. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group ( Russia, France, and the US) are currently holding peaceful negotiations.
KLO was established in Baku on 28 January 2000, with the objective of a public struggle for the liberation of Nagorno-Karabakh. KLO unites representatives of intelligentsia, refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), old and young people as well as former military soldiers.