OSCE CHAIRMAN-IN-OFFICE MEET WITH HEAD OF AZERBAIJANI COMMUNITY OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH
AzerTag, Azerbaijan
Sept 6 2005
OSCE delegation headed by the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian
Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel has meet on September 5 with the
head of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Azerbaijani community Nizami Bahmanov,
reported AzerTAj.
Speaking in detail of the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict, Nizami Bahmanov said all refugees are concerned with
insolubility of the problem. Though the both Azerbaijani and
Armenian Presidents have recently meet in Kazan, Russia, the Armenian
President’s visit to the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh is will negatively
affect the negotiations process, said Bahmanov. He asked the OSCE
Chairman-in-Office to examine this issue during his visit to Armenia.
Dimitrij Rupel has promised to discuss this issue with the Armenian
President Robert Kocharyan and said the question submitted by the
Azerbaijani side on illegal settling of Armenians in the Azerbaijani
territories is considering and will be prepared report on this issue.
In his words, OSCE will achieve by all means the resettlement of
Armenians from these territories.
Mr. Rupel has also in detail informed on the pre-election preparations
of the community of occupying territories and noted that there are
lists of the Azerbaijani citizens of Nagorno-Karabakh the Armenian
nationality.
From: Baghdasarian