MFA: 'Impunity emboldens radical Armenian groups to resort to new provocations'

Impunity emboldens radical Armenian groups to resort to new provocations, citing the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Azerbaijan said in a statement, according to Report.

The ministry noted that the systematic attacks against diplomatic missions of Azerbaijan by radical members of Armenian communities in foreign countries, including attacks and acts of vandalism committed against Azerbaijani embassies in Washington, Paris, Beirut and other cities, are a matter of grave concern.

"Ensuring the security of our diplomatic missions in foreign countries is an obligation of the host country under the international convention. In this regard, we again emphasize the need to conduct an appropriate investigation into each incident and ensure the security of our embassies and diplomats at the proper level.

"After Armenia declared its independence in 1991, in order to realize its territorial claims against Azerbaijan, it turned terrorism into a means of state policy and in the process of occupying the territories of Azerbaijan, it widely used terrorist means in different parts of our country, as well as committed terrorist acts in the city of Baku. As it is known, 24 Turkish diplomats working in various countries have become victims of Armenian terrorism.

"We note with regret that neither the attacks that took place in recent days, nor the criminal cases opened in 2020 in European capitals, as well as in the city of Los Angeles, against Azerbaijani diplomatic missions and members of the Azerbaijani community, have been brought to justice. It is this impunity that emboldens radical Armenian groups to resort to new provocations.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemns the hate-based criminal acts against Azerbaijani diplomatic missions, diplomats and their property by radical forces in foreign countries and demands that the institutions responsible for preventing such provocations in the respective countries approach their duties with full responsibility. Investigative measures related to the attacks against our diplomatic missions in foreign countries will be kept under the control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs," the ministry said.