Tokyo, 21 October, /AJMEDIA/
An international conference entitled “Neocolonialism: Violation of Human Rights and Injustice” has been held in Baku.
Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, Head of Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration Hikmat Hajiyev read out President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev’s address to the event participants.
The conference, moderated by Executive Director of the Baku Initiative Group Abbas Abbasov, also featured the presentation of a video highlighting the activity of the organization and the fight against colonialism.
Addressing the conference, Azerbaijan’s Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) Sabina Aliyeva, said that currently, a number of states around the world are facing the challenge of colonialism and are still fighting for their freedom and restoration of justice.
“What is most regrettable is that the international organizations and the world community as a whole remain indifferent to this unjust behavior and cases of massive violations of human rights. Azerbaijan is one of the countries suffering from such double standards,” Sabina Aliyeva added.
“The groups supporting independence in Guadeloupe are being murdered by France, with the number of casualties not being disclosed to the public”, said General Secretary of the People’s Union for the Liberation of Guadeloupe Jean-Jacob Bicep.
“90 percent of our products were taken to France and other countries. There, the agricultural policy is created in such a way that we cannot move freely. Colonialism also affects the cultural field. We want our language to be an official language on the same level as French, but they refuse it. At the same time, we want France to face justice,” said Luc Francis Carole, representative of the Party for the Liberation of Martinique, PALIMA.
“We want to gain independence. The liberation of Africa should be the focus of the whole world. The African diaspora should work actively,” Luc Francis Carole mentioned.
“We remain financially and economically dependent on France. The gold is extracted in our country and exported to France. When gold is mined, our rivers are polluted and our nature is damaged,” said member of the Decolonization and Social Emancipation Movement of French Guiana Maurice Pindard.