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Prosecutor's Office investigates scandalous video footage - Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry responds to charges
Baku/04.10.22/Turan: The Military Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan continues to investigate video footage of Azerbaijani soldiers allegedly committing a war crime.
The investigation was launched not because international structures called for it, but because of Azerbaijan's serious attitude to its international obligations. This is stated in the response of the press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Leyla Abdullayeva to a media request about the video footage that appeared a couple of days ago in social networks.
Abdullayeva noted that the same international structures did not react in any way to the numerous war crimes committed by the Armenian military during the First and Second Karabakh Wars. They also do not react to the deaths and injuries of more than 250 people from the detonation of mines buried by Armenians in the liberated territories.
"If those calling on Azerbaijan want to demonstrate impartiality and a fair position, they should approach the issue comprehensively, investigate the numerous crimes committed so far by Armenia, and demand that the perpetrators be brought to justice before the law.
Otherwise, it is nothing more than a one-sided statement made under the influence of Armenian propaganda," Abdullayeva stressed.
It has to be kept in mind that a day before the press secretary of the State Department Ned Price, as well as the Embassies of Great Britain and France in Baku, called for investigating the video footage "about the shooting of captured Armenians" and punishing the perpetrators.
"We welcome the statement of the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan on commitment to a comprehensive study of the video. We are waiting for the publication of the results of the investigation. We expect that all allegations of ill-treatment and murder will be fully investigated," the British Embassy said in a statement.
"We are shocked by the footage of an extrajudicial execution. France takes into account reports about the beginning of an investigation into this fact and calls for the perpetrators to be punished. France also calls for the release of all Armenian prisoners," the French Embassy said in a statement.
"The United States is deeply concerned" by the footage of the shooting of Armenian soldiers, State Department Spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.
"We call for a full and impartial investigation. The perpetrators of these atrocities must be brought to justice," he said. -02D-
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