Armenia tries to add religious hues to Karabakh conflict - Azerbaijani FM

  14 October 2015    Read: 1575
Armenia tries to add religious hues to Karabakh conflict - Azerbaijani FM
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov on Wednesday received Ambassador Mohamed Alaa Eldin Ali Shawky El Hadidi, the Egyptian president’s special envoy for the country’s candidacy for a non-permanent membership in the UN Security Council.

During the meeting the ambassador said Egypt supports the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan and wants the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict to be solved peacefully on the basis of norms and principles of international law and the UN Charter.

Mammadyarov in turn expressed gratitude to the ambassador for Egypt’s support to Azerbaijan’s fair position on the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict on the basis of norms and principles of international law.

The Azerbaijani FM said attempts to change the internationally recognized borders of the state are unacceptable.

Armenia even dares to add religious hues to the conflict in order to obscure the occupation and aggression it carried out against Azerbaijan, the FM said, noting that Azerbaijan has enough experience in exemplary multiculturalism, and intercultural and interreligious dialogue.

He emphasized the importance of the fight by Azerbaijan and Egypt – two countries with moderate Islamic culture – against Islamophobia.

Mammadyarov also said that counterterrorism was a priority for Azerbaijan too when it was a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for 2012-13, noting that Azerbaijan is a country troubled by terrorism and Armenia has arranged and carried out more than 30 terrorist acts in Azerbaijan’s transport infrastructure and other public places, killing thousands of innocent people.

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