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The Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC-AU) has protested on behalf of the Armenian-Australian community with a letter to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), following the participation of a representative of Australia\u2019s Embassy to Turkey and Azerbaijan to a propaganda event hosted by Baku in the ethnically cleansed and occupied village of Shushi in the Republic of Artsakh.

Defence Attach\u00e9, Captain Ben Esler was in Shushi for a \u201creconstruction conference\u201d hosted by Azerbaijan\u2019s petro-dictatorship of Ilham Aliyev despite Australia\u2019s allies who Co-Chair the United Nations-sanctioned OSCE Minsk Group, the United States and France, boycotting the event being hosted in a village that has been ethnically cleansed of its Armenian populations, where Armenian churches are being converted into mosques.

In the ANC-AU\u2019s letter, Executive Director Michael Kolokossian questioned the unacceptable decision of Australia to participate in the event.

Kolokossian asked: \u201cIn what wisdom did Australia feel obliged to visit the currently occupied, and ethnically cleansed territory of Shushi whilst our closest allies\u2013\u2013most notably the U.S and France of the OSCE Minsk Group, tasked with managing a peaceful resolution to the conflict\u2013\u2013rejected invitations to the \u2018reconstruction conference\u2019 in Shushi which has never been part of Azerbaijan?\u201d

The ANC-AU also explained that Australia\u2019s participation in such a conference in the occupied territories of Shushi represented \u201coutright complicity in Azerbaijan\u2019s systematic campaign of cultural genocide in the occupied territories of Artsakh, which the European Parliament has condemned as \u2018historical revisionism<\/a>\u2019\u201d.

Kolokossian added: \u201cWhy is Australian taxpayer dollars funding Australian diplomatic delegations to petro-dictatorship’s occupying territories, and accused of committing systematic cultural genocide?\u201d

\u201cSeeing as Australian diplomatic representatives are touring the occupied city of Shushi, they should take a quick pit-stop at Baku\u2019s ethnic hatred \u2018theme park\u2019 celebrating dead Armenian soldiers before coming home.\u201d

Kolokossian added: \u201cThe Azerbaijani government is not \u2018reconstructing\u2019 Shushi, they\u2019re dismantling and desecrating the sacred Armenian Holy Saviour Cathedral, falsifying the region’s historical roots as part of their propaganda campaign in claiming ownership of a region that was never there.\u201d

The ANC-AU letter has requested an urgent meeting with members of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to discuss this grave and concerning matter to the Armenian-Australian community.

Earlier, Australia\u2019s Ambassador to Turkey, Miles Armitage, celebrated the visit of his Defence Attach\u00e9 in a Twitter post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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