Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Armenian Parliament Artak Zakaryan has sent a letter to parliamentarians from different countries on the occasion of the 22nd year of the Agdam events (the Khojaly provocation).
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He urges his foreign colleagues not take Baku's bait and to ignore its anti-Armenian provocations.
"Though as many as 22 years have already passed since the events in Agdam, Azerbaijan continues its anti-Armenia propaganda. There are lots of documents on those events, so, we hope that our foreign colleagues will not be misled," Zakaryan said.
Feb 25-26 1992 the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic undertook a military operation to deblock the airport and to render harmless the Azeris' firing points near Khojaly. The operation was commanded by Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan. The Nagorno- Karabakh troops opened a corridor for civilians and had informed the Azeri authorities about that beforehand. However, the latter did nothing to take their people out of the combat zone.