Azer Tag, Azerbaijan State Info Agency
June 3 2004

DELEGATION OF AZERBAIJAN MADE PROPOSALS IN THE FINAL DOCUMENT ON
TOPIC “REFUGEES, MIGRATION AND PROTECTION” IN MINSK
[June 03, 2004, 20:24:35]

As was informed by AzerTAj, the UN High Commissioner on Refugees,
the International Organization of migration, the Council of Europe
and OSCE held a meeting in Minsk on the topic “Refugees, migration
and protection”.

Our country on this action was presented by the head of delegation
Gurban Sadygov, the head of department of migration of the Ministry
of Labor and Social Security of population Rauf Tagiyev, the head
of department of the Frontier Service Akif Shafiyev, the inspector
of Management of passport registration of the Ministry of Internal
Affairs Vugar Zeynalov who spoke of refugee problems, the IDPs and
migration of the Cabinet of the Azerbaijan Republic, and also as
the observer – the head of the department of the State Committee on
refugees and IDPs Telman Mammadov and others.

The head of delegation of Azerbaijan G. Sadygov in his statement has in
detail told about the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorny Karabakh conflict,
about the refugees and IDPs who became refugees in result of the
ethnic purge pursued by Armenia, the measures which are carried out by
our state in connection with their social protection, the situation
developed in the field of migration, scales of the conflict, support
of the international organizations in settlement of the problem.

Under the offer of delegation of Azerbaijan, to the project of the
final document adopted at the meeting has been amended with a new
paragraph under the name “Safety of the person and the IDPs” and some
items, responding to interests of our country.

Within the framework of action, were held meetings with representatives
of high rank representatives of the international organizations,
and discussed were questions and opportunities of development of
cooperation.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress