The appeal stresses that as a tolerant country Azerbaijan is against any kind of radicalism, that the Azerbaijani community of the United Kingdom strongly condemns the attack on the Embassy of Azerbaijan located in one of the central streets of London, and that this act of vandalism is a gross violation of international law, as well as the Vienna Convention, and constitutes aggression against the state attributes and the territory of Azerbaijan: “We strongly condemn it. Such acts will further strengthen our people’s determination to fight together against radical religious ideology and tyranny it is trying to impose.”
It is said in the appeal that this provocation exposed a gap in the security of the diplomatic mission and that the host country should take security measures in accordance with international legal obligations: “The Republic of Azerbaijan is a tolerant, secular state that opposes all kinds of religious extremism. The attack came at a time when Azerbaijan continues to develop ties with the EU in the oil and gas sector to secure deliveries to South-Eastern Europe, when a crucial stage of peace talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan brokered by the EU has been reached, which may well be aimed at derailing these opportunities, damaging the UK’s ever-evolving relationship with Azerbaijan and portraying the UK as an unstable country.”
Azerbaijanis of Great Britain demanded that members of the radical criminal group be expelled from the country in order for political and diplomatic stability to be restored.