PACE to hear report on deportation of Azerbaijanis from Armenia
Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Dec 8 2004
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Committee on
refugees, internally displaced persons and population heard a report
on deportation of more than 100,000 Azerbaijanis from Armenia from
1947 to 1953 in its meeting held in Paris on Monday on a request of
the Azerbaijani side.
According to Bakhtiyar Aliyev, the member of the Azerbaijani
delegation at PACE, the report, which provides evidence on genocide
and deportation of the Azerbaijani people perpetrated by Armenians
for centuries, has been included in a draft resolution.*