As we reported earlier, members of the Group for inter-parliamentary friendship with Azerbaijan of Ukraine’s Supreme Rada are visiting in Azerbaijan.

The group co-chairmen Valeriy Kolyuh and Vladimir Kreydenko as well as the other members of the delegation went to the town of Ganja.

The delegation came to the area devastated by the missile bombardments unleashed by the Armenian armed forces; they eye-witnessed the traces of the crime against civilians committed there in October last year.

As the visitors were told, Ganja, which is the second largest city of Azerbaijan, was subjected to missile and heavy artillery salvos on 4, 5, 8, 11 and 17 October. Those attacks killed 26 civilians including women and children and wounded 175 people. Besides, civil infrastructure, monuments of history and culture, and transport facilities were damaged.

The leader of the Milli Majlis Working Group for the Azerbaijani-Ukrainian inter-parliamentary relations Rufat Guliyev and the Azerbaijani MP Rufat Guliyev kept the Ukrainian delegation company on this trip.

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After that, the delegation of the Supreme Rada travelled to the town of Agdam where they were told that the Armenians had plundered, destroyed and set fire to dwelling and civic buildings, schools, culture centres, nurseries, hospitals and factories in Agdam and in the villages of the province after they had captured the town on 23 July 1993. Besides, Agdam’s cemeteries and heritage were vandalised.

The Ukrainian guests were shown the palatial complex, the palace and cemetery of Panah Ali Khan, the türbe of Ibrahim Khalil Khan and the sepulchral monument of Khurshidbanu Natavan. In addition, the Rada MPs called at the Friday Mosque of Agdam and were shown round office buildings and the Agdam Drama Theatre’s edifice. The visitors were presented with the master plan of Agdam and told in great detail about the construction work to be carried out around the town.

As the trip drew to a close, the co-chairmen of the Group for inter-parliamentary friendship with Azerbaijan of Ukraine’s Supreme Rada Valeriy Kolyuh and Vladimir Kreydenko shared their impressions of visiting both Ganja and Agdam with the mass media people.

The Press and Public Relations Department

The Milli Majlis