
I regret to say that his letter grossly misrepresents the facts and presents a completely one-sided view of the event.

I regret to say that his letter grossly misrepresents the facts and presents a completely one-sided view of the event.
In the case of Khojalu, there is overwhelming evidence that the Azerbaijani civilians were fired on by armed units of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan, a fact later confirmed by Azerbaijan’s president, Ayaz Mutalibov, and several independent journalists.
The Canadian government supports the efforts of the special international body that was created to deal with the Nagorno Karabakh conflict – the Minsk Group of the Organization of Security and Co-operation in Europe. Unfortunately, Nenshi’s letter is not in keeping with this balanced, Canadian approach, either.
The Minsk Group, composed of the United States, Russia and France, is charged with helping Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Nagorno Karabakh Republic resolve this conflict through negotiation. It is certainly appropriate to remember those who died needlessly in war, but inflammatory rhetoric and false accusations do not help show the way to peace.
* Armen Yeganian is ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to Canada.
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Well Said, Except …
I wish, in his superb, concise and substantive article, Ambassador Yeganian had substituted the rather allegoric “… where they had lived since the beginning of time” with something more precise such as “… where they had lived for centuries before Turkish tribes, now calling themselves Azeri, moved in,” thus denying the Turko-Azerbaijani lobby a chance to keep up their deceitful propaganda.
And also, I wish he would call it Artsakh, the Republic of Mountainous Gharabagh (un-hyphened) or Upper Gharabagh Republic, instead of the Russian form transliterated into English and with no indications as to what Nagorno means in Russian.
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