- Pak Journalists visit International Eurasia Press Fund in azerbaijan
- Azerbaijan always adhered to peace for the resolution of disputes and the use of military force always remained as its last option
- The conflict remained unresolved so far because of some powerful states’ vested interests
- The Journalists also visited the graves of the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the cause of their motherland
by Riaz A Malik
ISLAMABAD February 12: President International Eurasia Press Fund Mr. Umud Mirzayev was full of praise for Pakistan for its unyielding and unwavering support to Azerbaijan over the Nagorno Karabakh issue. He expressed these views while talking to a group of Pakistani journalists who paid a visit to International Eurasia Press Fund in Baku and held a detailed discussion on the working and the achievement of the IEPF. Mr. Umud Mirzayev added that Pakistan never recognized Armenia as a state because of Armenian Genocide and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He added that Azerbaijan’s support to Pakistan on Kashmir issue and Pakistan’s support to Azerbaijan on Nagorno-Karabakh issue are unconditional. Among the journalists there were BOL News, Foreign Office and Diplomatic Activities Correspondent Mohammed Anwer Abbas, Senior Executive Editor Daily National Herald Tribune Riaz Ahmed Malik, Editor of Pakistan In The World Magazine Tazeen Akhtar as well as the editor of Pulse News Mexico, Theresa Margolis, and a reporter for El Sol De Mexico newspaper Federico La Mont from Mexico .
Eurasia Diary reports that the journalists who came to Baku to observe the snap parliamentary elections also met the president of IEPF Umud Mirzayev in his office. Umud Mirzayev thanked the guests for coming to Baku with a deep interest in this remarkable event in Azerbaijan as well as being IEPF’s guests.
Journalists, who were first time at IEPF office, were closely acquainted with the organization’s activities, and during talks with the head of organization, also touched upon the Upper-Garabagh conflict of Azebaijan. Umud Mirzayev spoke to journalists about the residents of Garabagh who were killed and displaced from their lands as a result of the separatist Armenian vandalism in the 1990s.
“The most important reason for the establishment of IEPF is the Upper-Garabagh conflict itself. It was not so easy to voice problems of our compatriots out to the world, at the time, when Armenian aggressors drove them out of their warm houses. While Azerbaijan had just got rid of the Soviet leverage, it had not yet been able to introduce its sovereignty and territorial integrity to the world. The International Eurasia Press Fund was founded in 1992 for the need to bring the problrms to attention of the public in the world though which we invited representatives from the United Nations and international organizations to give them ideas of problems in Azerbaijan.”
Umud Mirzayev also gave answers to questions of journalists representing different media houses in their respective countries.
Mohammed Anwer Abbas, correspondent of BOL News said that Kashmir, which is a painful side of Pakistan, is also one of the most important conflicts on the agenda like Azerbaijn’s Garabagh. He noted that Azerbaijan also has military and economic potential like Pakistan and is capable of resolving this conflict through military forces.
In response to the journalist’s comments, the IEPF president said that Azerbaijan always adhered peace in any dispute and the military remains as the last option for us.
“You know, the main reason that the Upper-Garabagh conflict remains unresolved so far is because of some powerful states that have certain interests in our country. The OSCE Minsk Group, which has been negotiating since 1992 and the world’s leading nations avoid taking important steps for the solution of the ongoing problem and they rather leave the problem to the two states to find a solution to the conflict themselves.
Moreover, why are the four UN resolutions still not followed? Is the world unaware of what has happened so far?
Do you remember the April 2016 battles? At that time, we further moved into the occupied territories in our military positions, but our inability to successfully complete the mission was because of international interventions and challenges,” Umud Mirzayev stressed.
At the end, in the yard of the office the guests viewed the photos at the walls reflecting the Upper-Garabagh conflict and its damage to Azerbaijan. Umud Mirzayev together with the guests also visited the graves of the martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the Garabagh war. On this occasion the visiting journalists along with Umud Mirzayev also offered fateha for those who laid their lives for the cause of their motherland.
