European MPs visit refugees in Azeri town

Lider TV, Baku
17 Apr 05

[Presenter] A delegation of European parliamentarians is visiting
Azerbaijan. The delegation, which plans to attend a meeting of the
EU-Azerbaijan interparliamentary cooperation commission in Baku, has
visited camps of refugees and displaced persons in the town of Barda
[central Azerbaijan]. Our regional correspondent Teymur Zahidoglu has
more. Hello Teymur. What can you tell us about their visit and meeting
with refugees and displaced persons?

[Zahidoglu, by phone] The delegation of MPs from the European
Parliament’s committee of environment, public health and food safety
and also deputies from France, Holland, Poland and other countries
have met residents of camps in Barda. They familiarized themselves
with living conditions of refugees and displaced persons.

The head of the delegation, a French, Ms (?Maria Degui), said she had
visited many conflict zones of the world but the situation here is
intolerable.

Commenting on reports that [nuclear] waste from Armenia’s Metsamor
nuclear power plant is being dumped in Nagornyy Karabakh, she said the
European Parliament has demanded that the plant be closed. But for
some reason the problem still remains unresolved, she said.

[Passage omitted: the European MPs say the Karabakh conflict should be
resolved peacefully]