Jeddah: On the occasion of the 34th anniversary of the genocide in the town of Khojaly of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Hissein Brahim Taha, has paid tribute to all those who lost their lives in the 1992 atrocities, according to the OIC. According to Azerbaijan State News Agency, the Secretary-General reiterated that the Khojaly incident was a result of the illegal occupation of Azerbaijani territories by the Republic of Armenia. He referred to the Cairo Final Communiqué (Paragraph 117), adopted at the 12th Session of the Islamic Summit, held in Cairo in 2013, and to Resolution No. 46/51-POL on "Solidarity with the Victims of the Khojaly Massacre of 1992," adopted at the 51st Session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers, held in Istanbul, Republic of Trkiye, in 2025, which considered the mass atrocities perpetrated against the civilian Azerbaijani population in the occupied town of Khojaly as war crimes, crimes against humanity, and gen ocide.