Azerbaijan, Baku, April 18/Trend, T. Hajiyev
Women-journalists of Azerbaijan addressed an appeal to international organizations in connection with the killing of an Azerbaijani child by an Armenian sniper. On this occasion, the Union of Women-Journalists of Azerbaijan (UWJA) held an event on the 40th day of Fariz Badalov's killing.
The silence minute in the memory of Fariz Badalov killed by an Armenian sniper was held in the beginning of the event.
The world turns a blind eye to the tragedy of the killed Azerbaijani children, UWJA Chairwoman Sevil Yusifova said in an opening address.
"World press is currently worried that children in Africa die of hunger. Of course, such worry is good, but international press remains indifferent to the killings of Azerbaijani children by Armenians. When a man in uniform opens fire on a child who is of absolutely no threat this is the greatest crime. We must draw the attention of international organizations and authoritative international newspapers to this issue," Yusifova said.
Such actions of Armenians contradict the entire written and unwritten laws, Publicist Sona Veliyeva, the founder of newspaper Caspian, stated in her speech.
"Today we can see that the world is indifferent to this. As always, dual standards are observed in the world. These dual standards are applied largely in regard to Muslim countries, and there is observed injustice in relation to Muslim countries. That's why they turn a blind eye to such actions of Armenians," Veliyeva said.
She said world's leading television channels and other information outlets spend whole days showing reports that something has happened to a domestic animal somewhere but no one takes interest in destiny of a child.
"The world is indifferent to our troubles. For the sake of our propaganda, we must use other methods, means. We must try to notify the world of our troubles," she said.
Rauf Zeyni, Chairman of the Council of National NGOs, said it is wrong to expect an Armenian solider or officer to make a human act. No human act should also be expected from an Armenia intelligent, he said.
"None of Armenian intelligentsia has so far spoken against the occupation of the Azerbaijani lands by Armenians. Following the killing of Fariz Badalov, no one representative of Armenian intelligentsia has protested the action of the Armenian soldier. That is because they live with the unrealizable dream of "Great Armenia" and are prepared to do everything to make this dream come true. We face not a civilized, but wild enemy," Zeyni said.
The event's end marked an exchange of opinions on a statement, which, following certain changes, was signed.
Nine-year-old Fariz Arif oglu Badalov, a resident of village Orta Garvend, was killed when he was playing in the yard of his house at 17.00-18.00, March 8 as the Armenian Armed Forces violated the cease-fire agreement.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. - are currently holding the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.