Milli Majlis members condemn the European Parliament for visiting Karabakh

Today's meeting of the Milli Mejlis mainly focused on illegal visiting the occupied territories of Azerbaijan by the MPs of the European Parliament.

First  the MP  Vahid Ahmedov expressed concern that about 90% of the citizens are the debtors of commercial banks. He considers it essential that Parliament intervened in this situation. However, Speaker Oktay Asadov immediately  changed the  discussion to the international plane, calling on all Azerbaijanis to condemn MPs of the European Parliament: Edward Stadler (Austria), Kyriakos Triantafilidesa, Eleni Theocharous (Cyprus), as well as members of the French Parliament Buae Valerie and Ghi Tessier. A Belgian professor Bernard Cooley also was with them.

Then the deputies unanimously condemned "double standards, Islamophobia and anti-Turkic mood of Europeans," and Vice Speaker, Bahar Muradova, said that "the time has come to talk to them on their own language and to take adequate measures."

The deputies appealed to the Speaker with the request to appeal the chairman of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz,  because of "a violation by  the European MPs the requirements  of four resolutions of the UN General Assembly condemning the occupation and demanding withdrawal of the occupation troops from the occupied lands."

The members of the Milli Mejlis said that  "private visit" can not justify the intentions of European deputies to "destabilize the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh."

The MPs expressed their support for the practice of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry to declare persona non grata foreigners illegally visiting the occupied Azerbaijani territories.

According to the Speaker Oktay Asadov,  most reprehensible is the position of the Cypriot MPs who have expressed support for the right of peoples to self-determination. "It turns out that these representatives of the European Parliament wish chaos,  and doubt the principles of territorial integrity and inviolability of borders," he said.

According to him, the creation of the Friendship Group on Nagorno-Karabakh  in the French Parliament is illegal. "During a visit to the occupied territory the  MP Valerie Buae stated that "we aim to recognize this state and ensure the creation of independent living conditions for the people inhabiting it."

"It is strange to hear it from an official representative of a country, which plays the role of arbiter in the resolution of the Karabakh conflict. After all,  it  means frank  support to the separatist regime of Nagorno-Karabakh," said Asadov. -17D—