Azeri pressure group accuses OSCE chief of pro-Armenian stance

Trend news agency
1 Apr 05

BAKU

The Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) issued a statement on 1
April, accusing the OSCE chairman-in-office, Slovenian Foreign
Minister Dimitrij Rupel, of taking an anti-Azerbaijani position. The
KLO says in the statement forwarded to Trend that the organization
condemns the OSCE’s position.

“In his statements in Yerevan, the OSCE chairman expressed a specific
position on involving the Nagornyy Karabakh regime in the negotiating
process by the end of summer this year. Under the influence and
dictation of the Armenians, the OSCE chairman openly supports the
position of Armenian aggressors,” the statement says. The KLO thinks
it unacceptable for the chairman of the OSCE, which has undertaken to
settle the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict, to take such a position.

“Armenia is trying to change the significance of the issue and divert
attention from its aggressive actions by involving representatives of
the ‘Nagornyy Karabakh regime’ in the negotiations,” the statement
says. It also points out that it is necessary to use all means to
prevent this dirty policy.