From the appeal of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev to the Azerbaijani people on the occasion of the anniversary of the genocide in Khojaly – Baku, February 25, 2003
…The massacre in Khojaly is a bloody page of the Armenian policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Azerbaijani people, which has been going on for over two hundred years. This policy and hostility has never ended, but continued in different forms…