Armenian president replays to Bahar Muradova

The Armenian presidential press service has released replay of the President of the Armenia Serzh Sargsyan to the appeal by the Vice Speaker of the Azeri Parliament Bahar Muradova which reads:

"Dear Ms. Muradova, I have been sincerely upset by your appeal to me and my spouse made at the session of the Milli Mejlis. I have been upset for two reasons. First, I think that you were really sincere and convinced in

what you said. Second, the newly invented legends about my people grow into beliefs day by day in your country, which would be very difficult to dispel by facts and healthy debate only, to reassure even the most distinguished Madam in the opposite and expose the true reality.

I decided to respond to your statement as an Armenian. Should you engage in a frank conversation with the Azeris that know our people well they at their most sincere would definitely tell you who an Armenian is in reality.

I know it is hard but at least give it a try. Undoubtedly afterwards the propaganda will render to You, you and all the others, myriads of other horrible 'stories', but I assure you that stories from the depths of hearts and souls are perpetual as they are real. One just needs to be familiar with them.

Yes, we face a problem and we need to deal with that problem together. Indeed, together. We must solve it and not burden with it our children. But to do that first and foremost we should be able to transform the social atmosphere leading to destruction, we should reject mechanisms nourishing it, we should be able to remake the environment that gives birth to violence bringing about irretrievable losses of young men, an environment where a child's life may undergo speculations with suspicious stories serving the mere primitive goal of stigmatizing the whole nation.

We must be able to respond to their mothers, and do that together. The only thing their mothers expect from us is the return of their children.

Dear Madam, Although your statement had no touch to the reality whatsoever I decided to respond to it. And I hope hat after an impartial investigation of the child murder case that you referred to you should be able to make another statement no matter how difficult it is. Respectfully, Serzh Sargsyan".

To recall, recently the Milli Mejlis Deputy Chairperson Bahar Muradova publicly appealed the RoA President and his spouse and stated "do not let your people murder children.