22 December 2011, 18:00
The Senate of Mexico has adopted no resolution on the events in Khojaly, Armenian mass media report
The Senate of Mexico has not adopted any resolutions in connection with the events in the town of Khojaly, Nagorno-Karabakh. This was explained by representatives of the Senate of Mexico with the addition that two closing paragraphs of the document expressing the opinion of one of the committees were read out at a plenary session of the Senate.
We will remind that on December, 20, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan declared that the Upper Chamber of the Parliament of Mexico acknowledged the tragic events which happened on February, 25-26, in the town of Khojaly as genocide.
In reply to the question of "Novosti-Armenia - NEWS.am" representatives of the Mexican Senate said that the two closing paragraphs of the document expressing the opinion of one of the committees read out in the Senate contained a call for Armenia and Azerbaijan to continue peace negotiations and a support to Minsk group of OSCE.
The events in Khojaly were also mentioned in the document but they were qualified as "massacre", there is no word "genocide" in the document at all, the Armenian media agency reports.
According to "Novosti-Armenia" which also refers to the disproof from the Senate of Mexico, the events in Khojaly are estimated as "massacre" in the document read out on December, 4.