Buenos Aires City Legislature Discards Project to Name a "Republic

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Buenos Aires City Legislature Discards Project to Name a "Republic of
Azerbaijan" Square

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Agencia Prensa Armenia ( Link ->
http://www.prensaarmenia.com.ar/2014/09/buenos-aires-city-legislature-discards.html
) ).- The legislative council of Buenos Aires, Argentina, decided to
discard a draft project to name a square in the neighborhood of
Colegiales as "Republic of Azerbaijan" on Wednesday 10 September.

The bill drew a lot of criticism within the Armenian community, as the
grounds of the project said that Azerbaijan's early years of
independence "were overshadowed by the Nagorno-Karabakh War with
neighboring Armenia," while, in recent years, "Azerbaijan had not only
succeeded in pacifying the region but also is making great efforts to
open up to the world as part of various international organizations,
achieving economic and political stability for its people."

Carolina Karagueuzian, director of the


Armenian National Committee of South America in Buenos Aires ( Link ->
http://cna.org.ar/ ) , was the first to raise her voice: "Within the
apparent neutrality of the project there is a broader strategy hidden
by the Azerbaijani authorities, who seek to clean up their image and
conceal their constant violations of human rights. Azerbaijan's
embassy in Argentina was specifically opened to confront Argentine
citizens of Armenian descent, who maintain an active struggle against
impunity of crimes against humanity for nearly 100 years".

"The project said that Azerbaijan managed to pacify the region, when
in fact Azerbaijan authorities boycott the mediations in the Karabakh
issue and its president continuously threatens to resume the
war. Moreover, Azerbaijani President declared on September 3 that
Turkey and Azerbaijan will work together to 'dispel the myth of the
Armenian Genocide' in 2015, the centenary of the Genocide. It is
unacceptable for the City of Buenos Aires to grant a space for the
Azeri lobby to continue disseminating their denialist propaganda, just
when the city prepares to commemorate the 100th anniversary of this
crime against humanity", added Karagueuzian.

Furthermore, Karagueuzian recalled that "the Azeri diplomacy attempted
to carry out a similar project in Mexico City two years
ago. Additionally, in 2010, through the action of the Armenian
community the Buenos Aires City Government canceled the installation
of a statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk."

After the news broke through this agency, Deputy Alejandra Caballero,
author of the project, made it clear that she would not submit it in
the Legislature: "I we feel very close to the beloved Armenian
community, I accompany them in their pain, in living memory and the
constant claim of the cruel Armenian Genocide 99 years ago," said
Caballero. "I signed the project mistakenly, among many, to name
public spaces for other countries. I am sorry and I apologize to those
who may have been affected and felt offended by my mistake and deeply
thank my friends who alerted me of my carelessness," she added.

 

 

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