The United Nations (UN) Secretariat has published the address of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev to the participants of the second international conference on the topic "The Right to Return: Advancing Justice for Azerbaijanis Expelled from Armenia," held in Baku on December 5-6, 2024, and the final document of the conference as official documents of the UN Security Council and General Assembly.

Axar.az reports that the Western Azerbaijan Community has issued a statement on this matter.

The statement says that the dissemination of the appeal of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev to the conference participants, who has always kept the issue of the return of Western Azerbaijanis to their native lands in mind, as an official document of the UN is of particular importance in terms of increasing the profile of the topic of Western Azerbaijan on the international agenda: "Similarly, the dissemination of the final document of the conference as an official document of the UN was an effective step in terms of the international acceptance of the Western Azerbaijan Community as a credible organization and the dissemination of the results of the conference to the international community. The dissemination of these documents greatly contributes to the recognition of the aforementioned annual international conference as one of the most important platforms in the international arena in the field of the right of return and international humanitarian law in general.

Recall that with the dissemination of the aforementioned documents, the number of documents published as official documents of the UN at the initiative of the Community has reached ten.

The Western Azerbaijan Community will continue to present the issue of peaceful, safe and dignified return on the agenda of international organizations. The community once again calls on the Armenian government to abandon the policy of racial discrimination initiated by its predecessors, to fulfill its obligations under international law, to create conditions for the return of Western Azerbaijanis, and to initiate a dialogue with the Western Azerbaijani Community to this end.