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The Chambers of Representatives of Belgium and The Netherlands passed the resolutions on 16 April 2026 which are designed to strike a blow at the Azerbaijan-Armenia peace process and at the steps also which aim to form an environment of peace and co-operation in the region via the combined endeavours of both countries. The Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan condemns and rejects categorically those unilateral and biased documents which refer in a distorted manner to the sovereign territory of our country and are built upon false claims and unfounded accusations.
Those documents, which distort the history and consequences of the conflict that existed between Azerbaijan and Armenia and which are brought forth by the unsound and racist imagination of the traditionally anti-Azerbaijani, Islamophobic circles, constitute a flagrant violation of international law and rule of law as well as they represent a provocation targeting the continuing peace process in the region which is at its sensitive stage currently.
That the aforementioned documents would be passed precisely at the time of another meeting of the Speakers of Parliament of Azerbaijan and Armenia demonstrates with abundant clarity that the ‘originators’ of those documents are far removed from the regional reality and that their true intentions are to instigate enmity and revanchism rather than promote peace and dialogue.
The absence in the document adopted by the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium of any reference to the historic Washington Peace Summit as well as the fact that the document does not mention the outcomes of the Summit including the initialling of the ‘Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and Interstate Relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia’, is yet another telling example of the ‘competence’ of the authors of the document and those who voted for its adoption, as much as it is of their chronic bias.
The assessment by the authors of the document who consider the situation on the Azerbaijani-Armenian border to be risky militarily and who employ this as a foundation for the continued activity of the European Union monitoring mission in Armenia first and foremost contradicts the publicly stated position of Armenian officials. It is precisely thanks to the peaceful steps and responsible behaviour of the Azerbaijani side that the last two years have been described as the calmest period during which no military border incidents have occurred, as is also confirmed by the Armenian side.
It is, above all, an encroachment upon the norms of international law, human rights and rule of law, all referenced in the above-said documents, to call the persons whose guilt of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity was proved in the course of a transparent and open legal process ‘prisoners of war’ and to demand that they be released.
It is particularly notable that all the rights of the aforementioned convicted persons were protected during the investigation of their cases and their trial and that the legality of the judicial proceedings against them was established by the relevant impartial international mechanisms. In this context, the International Court of Justice rejected on several previous occasions the Armenian side’s requests for the release of these persons as well as for measures to be taken against Azerbaijan in connection with their trial.
By the same token, the relevant 13 March 2025 opinion of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the UN Human Rights Council established the legality of the detention and trial of the aforementioned persons by Azerbaijan, while the claims of violations of those persons’ rights were not upheld.
Expect the concerned states to which the above-said unfounded claims are addressed and the European Union alike to abstain from destructive interference in the peace process, which is being furthered with resolve via dialogue, and we are calling upon them to take necessary action to ensure that no such provocative steps will ever be repeated.
The Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan demands that the Parliaments of Belgium and The Netherlands should put an end to the campaign of hatred of Azerbaijan as well as to steps striking blows to efforts to strengthen peace in the region. At the current sensitive stage, not only those steps serve to encourage the revanchist forces acting against peace but they also harm the declared security and economic interests of the European Union linked to the region.
