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Azerbaijan to blacklist European Parliament member for illegally visiting its occupied lands

29 January 2018 10:22 (UTC +04:00)

The visit of a member of the European Parliament from Sweden, Lars Adaktusson, to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, where the bloodthirsty ethnic cleansing against more than one million people, including the crime against humanity and the Khojaly genocide were committed by Armenia, on the eve of Holocaust means to support the aspirations of occupation, aggression and bloody ethnic cleansing, Hikmat Hajiyev, spokesman for Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry, told APA.

This illegal visit violates the laws of Azerbaijan and norms and principles of international law, as well as harm the efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs towards a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, noted Hajiyev.

“It is extremely shameful that MEP Lars Adaktusson’s visit took place with the participation and funding of head of the Brussels-based Armenian lobby, who is engaged in money laundering and dirty diamonds trade,” he said.

“At a time when the EU member states themselves suffer from tendencies of aggressive separatism, when the EU and the European Parliament express support for territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Eastern Partnership countries, Lars Adaktusson’s illegal visit to Azerbaijan’s occupied territories and his contacts with the criminal regime established there are not understandable,” stressed the spokesman.

Instead of supporting aggressive separatism and the consequences of occupation, Lars Adaktusson, as a member of the European Parliament, could, by sharing and promoting the experience of the Åland Islands, a successful model of autonomy between Sweden and Finland, contribute to the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, added Hajiyev.

Lars Adaktusson’s name will be included in the list of undesirable persons of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, noted the spokesman.