Response from Chris Pincher (Twitter) – to my letter dated 5 June Chris Pincher Chair APPG – Azerbaijan 1.Read your careful words but reference to living in land of the enemy suggests believe NK/territories Armenian. UN disagrees. 2.Difficult to verify… Read More ›
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Response to Chris Pincher 5 June 2013 – Chair All-Party Parliamentary Group Azerbaijan
In a free world everyone should have the right to freedom of movement and to go and live wherever they wish to. In the real world Government’s apply restrictions on that. In an on-going conflict situation then the right of… Read More ›
Response to Chris Pincher 4 June 2013 – Chair All-Party Parliamentary Group Azerbaijan
Christopher Pincher @ChrisPincher @Artsakh_Org_UK suggest you visit an IDP camp and meet the people who have been exiled from their homes and their families. I have visited 3 ======================================================================================================= Artsakh.Org.UK @Artsakh_Org_UK @ChrisPincher It applies to both sides! Have you ever… Read More ›
The Insidious Politicking with “875,000” Azerbaijanis.
I have always been intrigued by the oft quoted number, by those sympathetic to the Azerbaijani perspective of the war, of 875000 people being Internally Displaced People (IDP’s) or refugees from the war. Also, the lobbying campaign to allow them… Read More ›
Nagorno-Karabakh Liberation War: From Tragic Truce to Peaceful Votes
19 years ago, on May 12 1994, a ceasefire was finally declared to end the fighting in the terrible Nagorno-Karabakh Liberation War. Too many people had been killed, there was untold misery and suffering for millions of people throughout the… Read More ›
Letter to Lord Laird : Deceived by Propaganda from Azerbaijan
On 30 April, the new Azerbaijani film ‘Xoca’ (Khoja) was screened at the Soho Hotel to over 130 Londoners, representing many sections of the capital’s multicultural population. The audience included H.E. Fakhraddin Gurbanov, Azerbaijani Ambassador to the UK, Lord Laird… Read More ›
Artsakh : Recognition through Common Consent
At a meeting with Franco-Armenian investors in Paris, Arayik Harutyunyan, the Prime Minister of Artsakh was reported to have said: “If we manage to end the year peacefully then that will be constructive, but in terms of concrete accords to… Read More ›
Artsakh issues : Diplomatic perspectives and sobering thoughts
It is well understood that the UK government has significant connections with Azerbaijan through the British Petroleum company and many years of investment in the oil industry in Baku, and therefore has a strong bias towards protecting that alliance. This… Read More ›
Demonstration to mark 25th Anniversary of Sumgait killings of Armenians by Azerbaijanis
Between February 27th and 29th 1988, the 18,000 Armenians living in Sumgait, near Baku, in Azerbaijan were subjected to violence and killings in response to the vote by the population of Nagorno-Karabakh to join with Armenia. A group of Armenians… Read More ›
Do Azerbaijani’s in London really understand about Khojaly and Karabakh?
Each year in London there is a short march by the Azerbaijani community to highlight their perspective on the events in Khojaly and this year I took the opportunity to witness it directly and to endeavour to find out more… Read More ›