PACE to mull Garabagh conflict in September

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
June 27 2005

Baku, June 23, AssA-Irada

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) temporary
committee on Upper Garabagh conflict decided on Friday to discuss
ways of settling the conflict in Paris on September 12.

Parliamentary delegates from the conflicting sides represented at
PACE as well as representatives of the mediating OSCE Minsk Group
member states will participate in the meeting to last 24 hours,
said member of the Azeri delegation at PACE Asim Mollazada.

Mollazada said Azerbaijan has suggested that the Committee cooperate
with the Venice Commission in outlining the legal aspects of the
conflict resolution.

The Azeri delegation appealed earlier to the PACE Ministerial
Committee over the inactivity of the temporary committee. The appeal
said that although the Committee has been operating for six months,
its experts have not visited the conflict zone yet. The Azerbaijani
parliamentarians raised the issue on realization of the visits in
July at the Ministerial Committee.

The temporary committee was established on the basis of a resolution
passed by PACE in its winter session.*