Western Azerbaijan Community reacts to Istisu visit of US ambassador to Armenia
The Western Azerbaijan Community has reacted to US Ambassador to Armenia Christina Quinn's visit to Istisu on August 18.
"As reported by the US embassy in Armenia, Ambassador Christina Quinn has today visited Istisu [Jermuk]. We do not have information about the purpose of the ambassador's visit to Istisu. However, we know that the ambassador while coming from Yerevan passed through residential areas where Azerbaijanis lived before, including Istisu, where their mosques and cemeteries had been destroyed and insulted.
We would like to know what steps Christina Quinn, who is the ambassador of the United States, which positions itself as the defender of human rights in the world, is taking in Armenia, a state that has become mono-ethnic as a result of ethnic cleansing, to eliminate the racism prevailing in the country of her accreditation and intolerance, and for the realisation of the rights of Azerbaijanis to return, enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
We also take this opportunity to call on the American side to respond to our appeal to Secretary of State Antony Blinken to support human rights without ethnic or religious discrimination,” the Community said in a statement, Azertag reports.