PACE Mulls Karabakh Conflict, MP Demands Armenia to Honor UN Resolutions

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Sept 13 2005

The Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagrno Karabakh was discussed by
the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Paris on Monday.

Azerbaijan was represented by its delegation at PACE and the
President’s special envoy Araz Azimov, while Armenia – by its
parliament members and a foreign ministry official at the second
subcommittee meeting, chaired by the former PACE president, British
MP Lord Russel Johnston.

Azeri MP Asim Mollazada speaking at the meeting demanded Armenia to
implement the four UN Security Council resolutions on its unconditional
withdrawal from the occupied Azerbaijani territories. He stressed the
need for accelerating a peaceful, stage-by-stage conflict resolution.

“But first, refugees must return home, their security ensured, and
then, communication lines opened and normal relations established
between the two sides. Only after this, the issue of legal conflict
settlement may be considered.”

The subcommittee meeting was attended by the head of British LINKS
non-government organization, the OSCE chairman’s envoy, French
and Russian co-chairs of the mediating OSCE Minsk Group, the OSCE
PA rapporteur on the Karabakh conflict and the European Union
representative on South Caucasus.