"Iranian-Azerbaijani inter-parliamentary friendship group should include Khojaly genocide in agenda"

Iranian-Azerbaijani inter-parliamentary friendship group should include in the agenda and study the issue of genocide in Khojaly, the spokesperson of the Iranian Parliament's national security and foreign policy commission Kazim Jalali told Trend.

Armenian troops committed genocide in Khojali on Feb. 26, 1992. The tragedy began early morning. Within hours, over 613 unarmed Azerbaijani citizens were killed. Among them were 106 women and 83 children. About 1,000 people were disabled by shots; 8 families were simply exterminated. A total of 25 children lost both of their parents and 130 children lost one of them. About 1,275 people were taken prisoners and around 150 people went missing.

According to Jalali, some forces in and out the region are trying to use the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict for the deterioration of the Iranian-Azerbaijani relations.

"The Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict should not cast a shadow on the Iran-Azerbaijan relations," said Jalali.


/Trend/