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From the letter of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev to the Jewish community in Azerbaijan – Baku, April 27, 2003

…The Azerbaijani people have also faced such disasters throughout its history. Particularly as a result of the Armenian military aggression launched in 1988, the genocide and deportation of the Azerbaijanis, mass murders and massacres, horrible Armenian vandalism in our occupied territories, and the Khojaly genocide were witnessed by the world community, but have not yet received international legal and political recognition…

From the appeal of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev to the Azerbaijani people on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Khojaly – Baku, February 25, 2002

…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…