Australian Government urged to condemn Azerbaijan aggression against Armenia
The New South Wales Ecumenical Council, representing 18 prominent Christian congregations across Australia’s largest state, has made a powerful appeal to Foreign Affairs Minister, Senator the Hon. Penny Wong, urging the Federal Government to condemn Azerbaijan’s unprovoked military assault against the Republics of Artsakh and Armenia, reported the Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC-AU), Armradio reports.
The letter, co-signed by NSW Ecumenical Council President, Rev. Myung Hwa Park and General Secretary, Rev. Shenouda Mansour, has also directly called on Minister Wong to appeal to the United Nations Security Council to support the Armenian people and the sovereignty of their nation.
The NSW Ecumenical Council also utilised the opportunity to once again call on the Australian Government to join over 31 nations and legislatures in accurately recognising as genocides the 1915 massacres of Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks by the Ottoman Turkish Government.
The NSW Ecumenical Council now joins the National Council of Churches Australia and the Uniting Church in Australia, which earlier this month appealed to the Australian Government to stand with the Armenian nation following Azerbaijan’s attacks on Armenia.
The Armenian-Australian community’s deep concern over Azerbaijan’s military aggression was raised by the Primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church of Australia and New Zealand, His Eminence Archbishop Haigazoun Najarian at the Council’s latest Heads of Churches meeting.
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