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Azerbaijan Urges Israel to Reconsider Armenian Genocide Recognition
Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry on Monday condemned Israel's cabinet decision to recognize the Armenian Genocide, calling it a distortion of historical facts and urging Jerusalem to reconsider. The protest came a day after the cabinet unanimously backed Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar's resolution, which framed recognition as a moral and historical obligation and said denial, minimization or distortion should be condemned. Israeli reports noted that Baku remains a strategic Muslim-majority partner on Iran-facing security, energy and defense ties, making the response diplomatically significant rather than symbolic. Israel's decision nonetheless asserts that the Jewish state can honor historical truth while managing hard regional alliances.