Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Dec 28 2004

Armenia Trying to Withdraw Karabakh Problem From UN Session Agenda

Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov has told
Armenian media that the OSCE fact-finding mission, which will visit
Azerbaijan’s occupied territories soon, will conduct monitoring not in
Nagorno Karabakh itself, but only in the seven regions adjacent to it.

Merzlyakov said that Armenia will provide suitable conditions for the
work of the OSCE mission, while Azerbaijan will allegedly withdraw its
proposal to discuss the illegal settlement of Armenians its occupied
territories at the United Nations.

Azerbaijani officials have not expressed their position on the matter
yet.

Director of the Political Innovation and Technology Center Mubariz
Ahmadogu says that Merzlyakov’s statement was distorted by both
Azerbaijani and Armenian press.

`Even if his statement was not distorted, it still hurts Armenia’, he
added.