OSCE FACT-FINDING TEAM ENDS INSPECTING ARMENIAN-CONTROLLED REGIONS OF AZERBAIJAN
ArmenPress
Feb 7 2005
STEPANAKERT, FEBRUARY 7, ARMENPRESS: Officials from the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have ended today
a first-ever international inspection of Armenian-controlled
Azerbaijani territories around Nagorno-Karabagh to investigate
Azerbaijan’s allegations that they are being illegally populated with
Armenians. The last region they visited was Lachin. They went back
to Karabagh capital Stepanakert and were expected to leave today.
The fact-finding team was led by a senior German Foreign Ministry
official, Emily Habber, and accompanied by the French, Russian and
U.S. co-chairs of the OSCE’s Minsk Group. The US co-chairmen, Steven
Mann, had to fly to Washington on the third day of the mission.
Mission members spoke with Armenian refugees in Lachin but refused
to talk to journalists. They are expected to sum up what they have
seen and present a report in spring.