The Committee of International and Inter-Parliamentary Relations of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan has issued a protest against a declaration made by the Chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs of The Bundestag of Germany.

The statement of protest says that the biased declaration distorting the reality that Chairman of the aforementioned The Bundestag committee Michael Roth made during his visit to Yerevan is deplorable.

Once again, we witness the patrons of the Armenian leadership mislead international community with their false claims. It is lamentable that the influence and pressure exerted by the destructive powers in The Bundestag result in such partial moves and the passing of such declarations. This fact by itself demonstrates clearly enough the whole groundlessness of the declarations of such sort.

‘The declarations made are especially objectionable for a number of reasons. We regard the distortion of the name of the Garabagh Region of Azerbaijan as a move made to harm the territorial integrity of our state. We would remind the Bundestag of Germany that representatives of the specialist UN units have twice visited the region and have confirmed in their subsequent reports the absence of whatever violence against civil populace. In our turn, we consider our German colleagues’ threats to impose sanctions on Azerbaijan as political hypocrisy and a flagrant example of double standards in action. Azerbaijan would be threatened with sanctions whilst our German colleagues never called for sanctions concerning Armenia despite the thirty years of Armenian occupation of Azerbaijani lands, destruction of the heritage, both in Armenia and in Azerbaijan, and the annihilation of historical legacy.

We, the Committee of International and Inter-Parliamentary Relations of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan, reiterate our categorical refutation of the declaration made by Michael Roth, Chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs of the Bundestag of Germany,’ goes the document.

The Press and Public Relations Department
The Milli Majlis