Azeri official hopes international mission to prove settlement in occupied
lands

Trend news agency
2 Feb 05

BAKU

The information registered by the [OSCE fact-finding] mission, which
is establishing facts of settlement in Nagornyy Karabakh, should be
seen as proof of the documentary evidence provided by Baku,
Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov told Trend today.

Azimov said “it is of course impossible to expose all facts of
settlement in the occupied Azerbaijani territories, but there are
sufficient facts to conclude that the Armenian side is implementing it
as a programme”.

“And this has not been done unofficially. This officially approved
policy is being implemented with the immediate support of the Armenian
government. We have sufficient facts published in the Armenian media
which provided strong emotional and ideological support for this
policy,” the deputy minister said.

Azimov added that the mass media describe those who agree to being
settled as heroes. These people enjoy different privileges, including
tax and land benefits, while their children get an exemption from
military service.

All this information has been taken from open sources, the web sites
of the Armenian media, as well as collected by relevant services and
handed over to the OSCE fact-finding mission in Baku.

“I hope the documents and facts we have provided have given them some
insight into the problem. They cannot be denied or ignored. The facts
will be registered,” Azimov said.

[Passage omitted: reported details]