Florida Mayor Joy Cooper has signed a declaration on the 30th anniversary of the Khojaly genocide.

Axar.az reports that, the declaration addressed to the Azerbaijani community states that within the framework of the policy of military aggression and ethnic cleansing launched by Armenia against Azerbaijan in 1988, Armenian armed forces with the help of the 366th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the former Soviet Army on February 25, 1992. It was reported that a massacre was committed in Khojaly on the night of the 26th.

Civilians trying to leave the occupied city were massacred. As a result, 613 people were killed, including 106 women, 63 children and 70 elderly Armenians. Some experts call the Khojaly tragedy "Azerbaijan's Srebrenica".

The document also states that in 1993, the UN Security Council adopted Resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884, which demanded the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the Armenian armed forces from the occupied territories of Azerbaijan. The support of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan by the UN General Assembly, the European Parliament, PACE, the OSCE, the US State Department and the White House is especially noted.

Joy Cooper presented the declaration to the head of the Florida-Azerbaijan Society Esmira Bayramova