BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 5. The place
said by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on freedom of
faith in Azerbaijan is extraordinarily biased, Archimandrite Alexis
Nikonorov, secretary of the Diocese of Baku, rector of the
Cathedral of the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Girls instructed Development.
”It’s value recalling that precisely two months in the past the president
of a sure ”Worldwide Christian Concern”Jeff King already
introduced a report on ”persecution of the 12 months” on the air of the
American data channel Fox Information, through which it was claimed that
Azerbaijan by the tip of 2023 entered the highest 10 international locations ’on the
scale of persecution of Christians’,” Archimandrite Nikonorov
mentioned.
”It’s clear to the clever reader that quite a few Western,
predominantly American, human rights organizations should not have
ample forms and infrastructure to acquire their dependable
data on non secular freedom in a given nation and course of it
by means of their analytical methods. They depend on data
obtained from varied, not at all times dependable, and infrequently biased
sources and analysts, together with the opposition. Such data,
after all, doesn’t at all times trustworthy positions of the informants. And
it isn’t stunning that these conclusions usually don’t have anything to
do with actuality,” he added.
Archimandrite Alexis Nikonorov believes that anti-Azerbaijani
lobbyists considering discrediting Azerbaijan and creating its
unfavourable picture within the eyes of worldwide political and public
constructions are behind the statements of the US Secretary of
State.
”Azerbaijan has amassed a novel centuries-old expertise of
peaceable coexistence and interplay, joint inventive labor of
Muslim, Christian and Jewish inhabitants. It’s a distinctive phenomenon
– there are virtually no present difficulties in Azerbaijan,
which in lots of states and societies hinder the event of
inter-religious dialog on the on a regular basis degree between peculiar
residents,” he defined.
Archimandrite emphasised that Azerbaijan pays particular consideration
to cultural variety in society and acts as a guarantor of the
rights and freedoms of each citizen no matter non secular and
nationwide affiliation.
”The Structure of the Republic of Azerbaijan enshrines a
provision on the equality of all residents earlier than the legislation regardless
of nationwide, non secular or language affiliation. On the identical time,
the State absolutely helps non-Muslim communities of their statutory
actions, giving impetus to interreligious and multicultural
dialog, which has lengthy proved to be exemplary all through the world.
No secret that through the territorial battle within the Karabakh
area that lasted for 30 years, there have been forces that wished to
give this confrontation a spiritual coloring,” Archimandrite
Nikonorov mentioned.
”However due to the knowledge of our individuals, the political will of
the non secular chief of the Caucasian Muslims Sheikh ul-Islam
Allahshukur Pashazadeh, in addition to the mediatory function of the
Russian Orthodox Church, all such makes an attempt have been fully stopped.
Azerbaijan’s successes, full restoration of territorial integrity,
unity of society and different optimistic components don’t give relaxation to our
enemies who’re considering weakening the political place of
our nation and its apparent main function within the South Caucasus,” he
added.
”They make makes an attempt to painting Azerbaijan’s success within the
de-occupation of its territory from Armenia as a confrontation
between Pan-Turkist forces and Christians. The truth that the
Christians imply solely the Armenian inhabitants of the Karabakh
area, displaced to the neighboring republic on the pressing name of
their political forces, which generate income on the problem of
”refugees”, is not any secret. So the place voiced by Antony Blinken
appears extraordinarily unconvincing and biased. I’m assured that this
won’t stop Azerbaijan from transferring ahead, persevering with to
strengthen its political and financial energy with full consolidation
of public and civil establishments, being a mannequin of inter-religious
and inter-ethnic relations,” Archimandrite mentioned.
On January 4, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken introduced
that a number of international locations, together with Azerbaijan, have been added to a
”particular watch record” in reference to non secular freedom.
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