“Armenia is ready to respond to falsifications of Azerbaijan”

Armenian Community of Poland gathered Friday in front of Azerbaijan’s Embassy, as February 2010 marks the 22nd anniversary of the Sumgait Massacres -- the beginning of acts of genocide against Armenians in Azerbaijan in 1988-92s.

Demonstrators marched across the diplomatic street of Saska Kempa towards the Embassy of Azerbaijan. Protesters carried Armenian state flag and posters, reading condemnation of the Sumgait Massacres.

One of the sourdoughs of Armenian Community of Poland, Rafael Amirian, spoke to protesters, and read a letter on the Simgait Massacres, which referred to those brutal crimes against Armenians of Azerbaijan, committed by Azerbaijani nationalists. The protesters urged Azerbaijan’s government to bear responsibility for those crimes and called the international communities to condemn mass killings against civil Armenian population of Baku, Sumgait, Maraga, Getashen, and other regions.

Rafael Amirian and Hakob Bagdasarian, who heads “Musa-Ler” ethnographic assembly, tried to hand the letter to the Azerbaijani official; however, the official refused to receive the letter and said doesn’t know Polish. Protesters had to throw the letter into the Embassy’s letter-box.

After holding a rally in front of Azerbaijan’s Embassy, representatives of the Armenian Community of Poland traditionally gathered at the Armenian Embassy, where Armenian Cross-Stone is installed, and paid a tribute to the Sumgait Victims.

Armenia’s Ambassador to Poland, Ashot Galoyan, presented Azerbaijani false interpretations of the Sumgait Massacres and disinformation on history of liberation of Karabakh.

The rally in front of Azerbaijani Embassy makes it clear that Armenians throughout the world will never forget those crimes and are ready to respond to falsifications of Azerbaijan and to all anti-Armenian acts, said Ambassador Galoyan.