BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 20. The Azerbaijan
Nationwide NGO Discussion board has despatched an open letter to Thomas Stähli, Swiss
Ambassador to Azerbaijan.
Pattern presents the
letter:
“As establishments of Azerbaijan’s civil society, we’re observing
systematic makes an attempt to form an anti-Azerbaijan narrative inside
the Swiss Confederation. The narratives superior underneath the title of
a so-called ‘Peace Discussion board’ within the Swiss Parliament serve to gas
revanchism in Armenia and undermine the peace course of between
Azerbaijan and Armenia. The slander marketing campaign constructed on hostility
towards Azerbaijan is aimed toward damaging peace and
confidence-building efforts within the area and at re-promoting
separatism.
Provocative actions towards Azerbaijan’s sovereignty and
territorial integrity, in addition to the usage of rhetoric and
terminology consigned to the archives of historical past, are more and more
changing into commonplace within the Swiss Confederation. It’s
incomprehensible that sure Swiss parliamentarians continuously
state that the Karabakh challenge just isn’t ‘closed,’ and that people
similar to Erich Vontobel have held conferences in Yerevan with
representatives of revanchist circles. The Christian Solidarity
Worldwide, headquartered in Switzerland, is trying to border
the Karabakh challenge in a spiritual context and is spreading slander
towards Azerbaijan.
We’ve beforehand addressed you, stating that when such
initiatives are put ahead, adopted, or promoted – notably
inside the parliament of a rustic like Switzerland, which claims
to respect worldwide regulation, or by a church that’s a part of Swiss
society, or when they’re held on Swiss territory – they change into a
clear instance of double requirements and contradict the rules of
objectivity and neutrality. Within the twenty first century, it’s unacceptable
to method points within the coronary heart of Europe via the prism of
ethnic or spiritual bias. It’s particularly unacceptable for actors
exterior the area to undertake a one-sided, prejudiced, and racist
method. We as soon as once more strongly condemn such unwarranted
interference and regard it as a blow to the normalization course of
between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
As a substitute of clarifying the destiny of almost 4,000 lacking
Azerbaijanis, Switzerland’s Worldwide Committee of the Pink
Cross (ICRC) has taken steps towards our nation’s sovereignty and
territorial integrity, together with beforehand opening an unauthorized
workplace in Khankendi. Though the ICRC claims to be a humanitarian
group, it has actually engaged in unacceptable political
exercise. What’s the supply of those directions that contradict
the ICRC’s mandate?
We’ve not forgotten that the ICRC abused Azerbaijan’s belief
and engaged in smuggling underneath its emblem, utilizing its cargo and
emergency medical automobiles. Gasoline, cigarettes, and containers of
cell phones had been found in these automobiles. Why was unlawful
commerce and fraud on Azerbaijan’s sovereign territories tolerated
underneath the guise of ‘humanitarian help’?
What was the aim behind the Embassy of Switzerland in
Azerbaijan sheltering a person named Emin Huseynov in its
administrative constructing for months and facilitating his departure
from the nation, reportedly disguised in ladies’s clothes,
accompanied by a consultant of the Swiss Federal Division of
Overseas Affairs Didier Burkhalter? What’s the function of the Swiss
state at this time in Emin Huseynov’s smear marketing campaign towards
Azerbaijan?
We’ve many questions. In reference to the above, we, the
representatives of the Azerbaijan Nationwide NGO Discussion board, an umbrella
group uniting a whole lot of Azerbaijani NGOs, are able to
meet with you.”
