Azeri Speaker unruffled by Armenian MPs’ absence from NATO seminar

Lider TV, Baku
25 Nov 04

[Presenter] The Rose-Roth seminar of NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly
opened in Baku today. Azerbaijani Speaker Murtuz Alasgarov said that
Armenian MPs did not join the seminar.

[Alasgarov, speaking to microphones] Ask the NATO secretary [as heard,
actually secretary-general of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly], why
they have not come. I have not invited them and I am not interested
in their visit to Azerbaijan. They do not tell us [about this]. This
is not our business. Ask the organizations which have granted visas
and invited them. So, they did not come. Very well.

[Passage omitted: reported details]

[Presenter] Speaker Alasgarov spoke about the Nagornyy Karabakh
problem at the Rose-Roth seminar. He informed the participants in
the seminar of the OSCE’s inactivity [in settling the conflict].