Western Azerbaijan Community

The Western Azerbaijan Community strongly condemns the already tendentious attempts of gross interference in the internal affairs of Azerbaijan by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and other officials of this country.

We would like to emphasize with regret that over the past years we have not seen any condemnation from the US of Armenia's occupation of Azerbaijani lands, its policy of ethnic cleansing and deportation of Western Azerbaijanis. US officials did not side with Azerbaijan, whose lands were occupied, not with hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons and the families of thousands of missing persons, but with the occupying country in the person of Armenia, a group of disgraced marginalized elements who have no authority in Azerbaijani society. After the Patriotic War, we once again witnessed the differentiated approach of the US towards all this, especially towards the territorial integrity and sovereignty of countries. We saw that the US did not respond to the letter of the West Azerbaijan Community, which chose the path of peaceful return to its ancestral lands, addressed to the same Anthony Blinken, but at the same time welcomes, issues visas and provides the opportunity to speak in various American institutions to separatists involved in the implementation of the policy of ethnic cleansing against the Azerbaijani people, who to this day, being already in Armenia, threaten the sovereignty of Azerbaijan.

We have not heard that the US, which positions itself as a country that respects freedom of religion, prepares "authoritative" reports and includes countries in various far-fetched lists expressing concern about the state of the "Armenian heritage" in Karabakh, condemns the destruction and distortion of the rich cultural heritage of the Azerbaijani people on the territory of Armenia. Because of all this, the US has lost its remaining authority in Azerbaijani society.

Instead of using the “human rights” issue, fake news media and “independent” NGOs as weapons against Azerbaijan, the United States should join the most important international human rights conventions, end the use of excessive force by police, which has been documented in numerous reports by various international organizations, as well as practices such as racial profiling and structured racism by law enforcement, address the problem of gun violence, investigate the torture of prisoners and other illegal acts.