Baku wants to stop illegal economic operations in Karabakh

Interfax
Sept 29 2004

Baku. (Interfax-Azerbaijan) – Azerbaijan intends to stop illegal
economic operations of international companies in Nagorno Karabakh.

“We have a special black list of international organizations engaged
in illegal economic operations in Nagorno Karabakh,” Azerbaijani
Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov told reporters on Wednesday.

“A ban will be imposed with regard to these organizations, agencies
and other institutions and sanctions implied by international law
will be applied,” he said.

Azimov said that the Armenian side in Karabakh is taking such illegal
steps as organizing international economic operations, building
settlements and illegally using natural resources.

He said Azerbaijan closely follows the developments and intends to
use international instruments to stop unlawful economic operations
in Karabakh.

Azerbaijan lost control over Nagorno Karabakh and seven adjacent
districts in an armed conflict with Armenia in 1990. Cochairmen of
the OSCE Minsk group representing the United States, Russia and France
are trying to help settle the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.