…The genocide in Khojaly is the bloodiest page of the Armenian policy of ethnic cleansing and a crime against the Azerbaijani people going on for over two hundred years. This policy supported by some states was conducted in the period of the tsarist Russia and of the Soviet Union. It resulted in mass deportation of the Azerbaijani population from their homes and massacres after the collapse of the USSR. Two million Azerbaijanis suffered from the consequences of the Armenian policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide…
…By committing the unprecedented Khojaly genocide, the Armenian chauvinists wanted to terrify our people, occupy the Mountainous-Garabagh and other territories of Azerbaijan, break our will. However, the enemies could not achieve their goals. It is true that the tragedy shocked Azerbaijan and wounded badly our people. But the defenders of Khojaly demonstrated heroism against the Armenian armed forces and wrote a heroic page of our history…
…Now the Azerbaijani government and people must inform the world community about the Khojaly genocide and other atrocities in Garabagh and achieve its recognition as a genocide. It is our debt to the martyrs of Khojaly. At the same time, it is important to achieve international legal and political recognition of the tragedy, punish the organizers and executioners in order to not let the repetition of such brutalities against mankind…