Azeri official upbeat on OSCE Karabakh report

Trend news agency
18 Jul 05

Baku, 18 July, Correspondent R. Abdullayev: Azerbaijan views the
report of the special representative of the OSCE Parliamentary
Assembly on Nagornyy Karabakh, Goran Lenmarker, as positive, the
deputy foreign minister of Azerbaijan, Araz Azimov, said on 18 July
at a news briefing on the outcome of the visit of the OSCE Minsk
Group co-chairmen to Baku.

Lenmarker tried to take into account positions taken by both sides
as much as possible when preparing his report.

“The report says that the break-up of the region into several small
countries is unacceptable,” Azimov said. He stressed that Lenmarker’s
proposal to apply the Swedish-Finnish model of the Aland isles in a
solution to the Karabakh conflict is because of the nationality of
the special representative.

“Lenmarker is a Swede and he studied the Aland model well,” Azimov
said. The report clearly says that the occupation of Azerbaijani
territories must certainly be ended.

“On a whole, the report is positive, albeit with some theoretical
limitations,” Azimov concluded.