There was a meeting on 21 October of Azerbaijani MPs and a group of participants of the conference Neo-colonialism: Violation of Human Rights and Injustice that Baku hosted.

MP Tural Ganjaliyev greeted the visitors and underscored the importance of the conference held yesterday and organised by the Baku Initiative Group. He emphasised what contribution this event can make to the cause of discouraging the colonialist policies still pursued by certain countries the world over. Even though neo-colonialism is prohibited by the UN, France continues this particular policy today, making several countries suffer from it. France is attempting today to set herself on a course for neo-colonialism in the South Caucasus as well, Tural Ganjaliyev was saying.

Director of the Baku Initiative Group Abbas Abbasov, in turn, spoke of the gravitas of the aspects covered by President Ilham Aliyev’s address to the conference participants. Besides, Mr Abbasov commented on the work of the BIG and on the struggle against colonialism.

Luke Francis Carroll the Party of Freedom of Martinique, Deputy Secretary General of the Caledonian Union Party David Wanabo and New Caledonian MP Maria Line Sakilya shared their opinions too. Those were about the French colonialist policy pursued in regard to their respective countries, France pillaging their natural resources and forcing local citizens leave their countries, the phoney referenda staged by France and other matters. The guests also said their thanks for the unfailing support Azerbaijan as Chair of the Non-Aligned Movement extended to their just struggle for fairness and freedom, and for having hosted the above-said conference.

Members of the Milli Majlis Javanshir Feyziyev and Azer Karimli remembered that the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations guarantees the equality of all people and that no-one may be made or kept a slave or in a dependent state according to it. It is outrageous that France would still be on a colonialist course in our modern time, at the time at which the Declaration turns 75 years old, they said. The Azerbaijani MPs expressed a confidence that the ideas voiced at the anti-colonialism conference in Baku will be raised with the UN and other international organisations eventually.

The other participants of the meeting included MPs Kamal Jafarov, Shahin Ismayilov and Mushfig Jafarov.

The Press and Public Relations Department
The Milli Majlis