MEXICO CITY—The mayor of Mexico City has said that a controversial statue of the former Azeri leader Heydar Aliyev will be moved from its current location, reported the BBC.
Miguel Angel Macera said the statue would be moved from a park on the city’s main avenue, the BBC reported.
Mexico’s Federal Administrative Court last week dismissed a complaint filed by Azerbaijan’s Embassy to prevent city authorities to dismantle and remove a statue of Azeri dictator Haydar Aliyev from a park at the center of the city, reported the Cronica newspaper.
The court’s decision paves the way for the statue’s removal.
The statue was erected over the summer, after the Azeri government invested a reported $10 million in renovation of the park and the statue. The giant statue had raised concerns with citizens and protests from activists who decried the city’s decision to house a statue of a known dictator along such figures as Abraham Lincoln and Mahatma Gandhi.
In late November, a three-person panel appointed to investigate the erection of the statue in the city’s Reforma Boulevard recommended that the statue be removed, prompting Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to Mexico Ilgar Mukhtarov to threaten retaliation against the Mexican government, including the closure of Baku’s representation in Mexico.
The Azerbaijani Embassy appealed the commission decision to the district court requesting an injunction to stay the decision to remove the statue.
In November, Muktarov also said Azerbaijan would cancel $4 billion in investment projects for Mexico, saying if the then Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard “decides to remove the monument, we will cancel the projects, close the embassy, it would hurt the relationship between the two countries, and it would not be good for his image to be the person who prevented a $4-billion investment.”
siktir bastard
Mexico will be fine with or without Azerbaijan there
Moved? It should be melted down and the metal used for a monument to Jacobo Harrotian.
Less corruption in your country or the statue of some unknown piece of crap in your park … Hmmm, hard decision.
To remove, because it is not the right place :
Where to Locate?
To locate in a Park to be named Historical Criminal Dictators’ Park, that people visit and get to know the Criminal Dictators, as:
-Atilla, the Turkic-Hun, who was devastating Europe, 400 BC
-Neron, the Roman Caeser who was burning Rome, 100 AC
-Dhengis Khan, the Mongol, who was devastating Europe, 1200 AC
-Timur Leng the Turkic, known Tamerlan, who was massacring and devastating Middle East (Mesapotamia) and Aisa Minor, 1400 AC
-The Ottoman Red Sultan Hamid and his Young Turks, the Trio, Talat, Enver and Gemal, the Genociders of Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks. 19th & 20th century.
-Hitler, the German Nazzi, the Criminal of War and genocider of Jews.
-Stalin, Saddam, Genociders of their own people.
-Haidar Aliev, the genocider of Baku Armenians and Oppressor of his people.
-Others, to be completed by Historians.
Who to pay the creation and development of this park ? The UN, to teach the generations the hitory of mankind and the biggest criminal Emporrers and Dictators.
Vahan Vanagan