Ilham Aliev cancels meetings in Bundestag because of resolution on Armenian Genocide

During his visit to Germany, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev has cancelled the meetings to be carried out at the Bundestag because of the resolution adopted by the German Parliament on recognition of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on June 2, the Bundestag approved the resolution titled "The 101^st anniversary of the Genocide of Armenians and other Christian minorities." The resolution announces the recognition of deportation and killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as genocide. Furthermore, the resolution also announces partial responsibility of the German government for those tragic events.

During his visit to Germany, Ilham Aliev has changed the formal protocol in protest and cancelled the meetings scheduled at the Bundestag, including the meetings with members of the inter-parliamentary friendship group "Azerbaijan-Germany", the news agency "APA" reports on June 9 with reference to the Turkish media.

The above step of the Azerbaijani leader became "a response to the double standards of the West, which keeps silence concerning the genocides committed in history, including the Khojaly genocide," states Khalil Akynchy, the head of the Higher Advisory Board of the Hazar Strategy Institute (HASEN).

Let us remind you that the tragic events in the town of Khojaly, when more than 600 civilians were killed in February 1992, during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, are signed in recent history as the Khojaly tragedy. Officials of Azerbaijan treat the Khojaly tragedy as genocide.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.