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The 67th session of the UN General Assembly and the work of the main committees is taking place in New York. The permanent representative of Armenia to the UN Karen Nazaryan made a speech today on the point of agenda ‘Extermination of racism, racial discrimination and other forms of intolerance’, informs the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The RA permanent representative noted that the wounds of the aggression from the side of Azerbaijan towards Artsakh have not yet healed and that the country continues the state propaganda of hatred against Armenians.

The ambassador invited the UN member countries’ attention to the facts of official Baku’s hatred of Armenians, and noted that the international community is sounding an alarm with this respect, particularly the intergovernmental bodies carrying out a fight against racism. The key point of Karen Nazaryan’s address was the granting of pardon to Ramil Safarov, which contradicts not only to the humanitarian objectives of the international law but also challenged the whole system of human rights.

Ambassador Nazaryan noted that the Azerbaijani president’s pardoning of the murderer is a horrifying example of impunity, continuation of a murder on the ethnic basis, which is a result of decades of implementation of the politics of xenophobia and racism. He added that Azerbaijan rudely violated the UN objective of ‘showing tolerance, living together in peace’ by which it disrupts the formation of an environment of trust in the region.

The Ambassador called upon the UN and the international community to continue raising their voices of protest against this inexcusable behavior which, disrespecting human rights and dignity, also jeopardizes regional peace and security.