Armenia asks OSCE to set up new factfinding mission

Arminfo
17 Mar 05

YEREVAN

At the request of the Nagornyy Karabakh authorities, Armenia has asked
the OSCE Permanent Council to discuss the issue of setting up a new
factfinding mission for an impartial assessment of the situation in
the districts which were densely populated by Armenians in the past
and are now under Azerbaijan’s control – northern Mardakert, eastern
Martini of Nagornyy Karabakh and Shaumyan District, the Armenian
Foreign Ministry says in a statement issued in connection with today’s
OSCE report on the territories controlled by the Nagornyy Karabakh
Republic [NKR].

The Armenian Foreign Ministry also pointed out in the statement that
according to the UN Economic and Social Council’s committee on
economic, social and cultural rights: “The committee expresses its
concern over the illegal seizure by refugees and internally displaced
persons of the property that belonged to the Armenians and other
ethnic minorities.”