Baroness Cox's attempt to push pro-Armenian agenda in London goes down in flames Another victory of UK's Azerbaijani Community

The Azerbaijani Community operating in the United Kingdom has managed to prevent another provocation by the Armenian Diaspora and those sponsoring it.

Farida Panahova, chairperson of the Azerbaijanis Society of Great Britain, told Caliber.Az that the famous Carlton Club, located in the centre of London, planned to hold an event on "Armenia: ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh" on February 5. The event was organised by the pro-Armenian, Turkophopic and Islamophobic Baroness Caroline Cox. Lord de Mauley and the Armenian envoy to the UK, Varuzhan Nersesian, helped organise it.

After learning of these plans, the Azerbaijanis Society of Great Britain, on behalf of the Azerbaijani community, sent an open letter of protest to the club's management. Copies of the letter were sent to the British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, Members of Parliament, Members of the House of Lords Lord Evans, Lord Ahmad, Lord Kilclooney, Lord Sarfraz and Baroness Manzila Pola Uddin, Minister for Europe and North America Leo Docherty, Head of the Foreign Office Select Committee Alicia Kearns and the leadership of the Conservative Voice organisation.

It was noted that planning such an unjustified event had caused serious concern to the Azerbaijani community. It was stressed that at a time when Azerbaijan and Armenia are on the verge of signing a peace treaty, this event undermines the prospects for peace, which is completely at odds with the position of a peace-supporting Britain and its foreign policy.

It was reiterated that Azerbaijan's allegations of ethnic cleansing are completely unfounded and that the UN and ICRC missions have not found or documented any evidence of damage to civilian infrastructure in Karabakh or of forced displacement of Armenian civilians by the Azerbaijani authorities. It was also pointed out that the Armenian ambassador to the UK was, strangely enough, one of the organisers of the meeting against the policies of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

The President of the Society urged the Club's management to cancel the event, pointing out that holding it without solid evidence of the allegations made could have undesirable consequences, and recalling the example of Queen Mary University last year.

An official letter dated January 22, 2024, to Farida Panahova, Chair of the Azerbaijanis Society of Great Britain, on behalf of Club Secretary Simon Robinson, confirmed that the meeting would not take place.

"This is yet another victory for the Azerbaijani diaspora in the United Kingdom over the Armenian diaspora and the pro-Armenian forces," stressed Farida Panahova.