Afghan veterans complain to Putin
A group of soldiers-internationalists adopted an appeal to the President of the Russian Federation, V.Putin, on the eve of his visit to Azerbaijan.
The appeal says that nearly 10,000 Azerbaijanis were combatants in Afghanistan, and most of them were awarded orders and medals; 208 Azerbaijani died in combat, and 417 were disabled.
Warrior-internationalists complain about the deterioration of the attitude towards them by the authorities of Azerbaijan.
Despite the "Agreement on Mutual Recognition of benefits and guarantees for the participants and invalids of the Great Patriotic War, the combatants in other states, families of the dead soldiers" from April 15, 1994, which Azerbaijan joined on February 13, 1997, the former Afghan combatants are deprived of privileges. The veterans' certificates issued in the Soviet time are considered invalid, and are not replaced by the standard national forms.
"In fact, they do not recognize us veterans, and repeated appeals to various state agencies and to the president of the country, remain unanswered," reads the statement.
The authors of the appeal remind that on April 5 this year, 500 veterans held a protest action in front of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan. In response, they were promised that all their problems will be addressed during 20-day period.
"We were accused of pro-Russian sentiments, we are told - once we served during soviet times, let Russia help us," the statement reads.
They asked Vladimir Putin to help to achieve benefits for the health deteriorated during service in the Armed Forces of the USSR. "It is possible that we all and our families, will refuse the Azerbaijani citizenship, and turn to you to provide us with shelter," said the appeal, signed by 45 veterans- combatants in Afghanistan. -04D-
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