Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
March 7 2005

“Residents of houses in occupied regions may have been relocated”

Baku, March 4, AssA-Irada

The OSCE fact-finding mission, which held a one-week monitoring in
seven occupied regions of Azerbaijan early in February, confirmed
numerous facts relating to the illegal settlement of Armenians, the
President~Rs special envoy on the Upper Garabagh conflict, Deputy
Foreign Minister Araz Azimov, told a news conference Friday.

The mission members did not see residents of the refurbished houses
while visiting the Lachin, Zangilan, Jabrayil, Kalbajar and Gubadly
regions. These people may have been instructed to temporarily leave
the area prior to the mission~Rs arrival, Azimov said.

The mission is expected to make public its final report on March 16.*