DOUBLE STANDARDS TO CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY INADMISSIBLE

PanARMENIAN.Net - "Application of double standards, jugglery with terms, substitution of problems, speculations with historical facts in case of crimes against humanity is inadmissible," President of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Arkady Ghukasian stated when addressing Ultimate Crime, Ultimate Challenge: Human Rights and Genocide international conference. The NKR President's statement notes: "The crimes against humanity should be denounced. The international community should not have an alternative to such an attitude towards genocide. Otherwise, the fact of perpetration of a genocide becomes not subject of common aversion and condemnation, but merely one of the numerous tools for states realizing their geopolitical, geoeconomic, regional, domestic and other interests. As state interests have diverse, often diametrically opposite goals, not only oblivion of the fact of a genocide is favorable to a government in a certain historical period, but also the indirect justification of its perpetration. This is what Azeri leaders are guided by today, by "fair" settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict they mean full eviction of indigene Armenians from Artsakh. Aiming at that they pursue a policy of provoking world and regional powers, first of all Turkey to put not only political and economic, but also military pressure on Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. Simultaneously the Azeri propaganda machine has launched an unprecedented campaign to forge the historical facts, up to presenting Armenians to the international community as people, who have allegedly committed a genocide against the Azerbaijanis. Unfortunately such policy by the Baku authorities is not censured by the international community. Meanwhile, the policy is pregnant with the threat of forming permanent hatred towards the entire Armenian people in today's and future generations of the Azeri society. The consequences of such a policy have destructive consequences for confidence building between the parties of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, the Azeri and Armenian peoples, who are to be neighbors for always as the God has willed."