Azerbaijan to raise Upper Garabagh issue at PACE session

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Feb 7 2005

Azerbaijan intends to raise the Upper Garabagh problem at the winter
session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)
in Vienna on February 23-24. The agenda of the forthcoming session
has been approved, chairman of the permanent parliamentary commission
on economic policy Sattar Safarov has said.

Safarov said that Azerbaijani parliamentarians will attend the meetings
of the Assembly’s three committees.

The agenda of the PACE final session of 2005 due in Washington on
July 5-9 will also be approved at the winter session, during which
the Azerbaijani delegation will propose that the report on the Upper
Garabagh conflict, prepared by Goran Lennmarker, the OSCE Parliamentary
Assembly (PA) rapporteur, be included in the session agenda.

Preliminary discussions on the report were held during Lennmarker’s
visit to the region in November 2004. The initial version of the
report will be presented to Azerbaijani MPs at the winter session of
the OSCE PA.*