Azerbaijan claimed on Thursday that a resolution adopted by the EU on establishing closer ties with Armenia and voicing the need for a peace agreement between Baku and Yerevan was “unfounded and biased.”
Foreign Ministry spokesman Aykhan Hajizada claimed that the resolution adopted by the European Parliament a day earlier served as a “clear example of a recurrent double-standards approach against Azerbaijan.”
“The European Parliament may prove a more useful institution if it addresses more serious issues plaguing Europe, such as racial discrimination, Islamophobia, xenophobia, extremism, and inhumane treatment of migrants, instead of interfering with the normalisation process between Azerbaijan and Armenia.”
Hajizada stated that the resolution was a part of a “smear campaign” against his country, adding that the resolution was supported by numerous groups in the European Parliament influenced by Armenia and the Armenian lobby.
We remind MEPs that such resolutions, which have nothing to do with the European Parliament’s declared values, completely invalidate its role as an institution.
The European Parliament adopted a resolution “on closer ties between the EU and Armenia and the need for a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia” on Wednesday, as Yerevan sought closer ties with Europe.
