As a result of a video conference entitled "Bloody 20 January" organized by the "GOBUSTAN – Association of Azerbaijani Academics in Sweden" (AAAS), a resolution addressed to the chairman and members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, was adopted.
The resolution was addressed by more than 100 participants of the video conference, including members of "GOBUSTAN- AAAS”, and the Azerbaijani public activists, family members of the January 20 martyrs, and January 20 veterans to the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes and members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Asle Toje, Anne Enger, Kristin Clemet, and Gry Larsen.
The resolution highlights an unjust decision on awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in October 1990, whose hands were soaked in the blood of the Azerbaijani people in the 20 January, 1990 massacre.
The document also mentioned the sufficient legal grounds for bringing the criminals who committed the January 20 tragedy to justice, noting that the January 20, 1990 Massacre is, first of all, a violation of the requirements of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and other international legal conventions! “This massacre is a crime against humanity, during which peaceful people were killed, injured, kidnapped and tortured. A historical crime was committed against the entire people!” the resolutions reads.
“We hope that the Nobel Peace Committee will not turn a blind eye to the insult to Nobel values, and that you will restore historical justice by signing a decision to deprive Mikhail Gorbachev, who has earned the deep hatred of the Azerbaijani people, as well as other peoples of the former Soviet Union, of the Nobel Peace Prize,” the resolution concludes.
