BAKU: Issue Of Refugees In Azerbaijan Excluded From Agenda Of PACEDi

ISSUE OF REFUGEES IN AZERBAIJAN EXCLUDED FROM AGENDA OF PACE DISCUSSIONS

Today, Azerbaijan
Oct 5 2005

>>From the agenda of the autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly
of the Council of Europe (PACE) which started on 3 October 2005
debates on the report of refugees in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia
is excluded on the insistence of the Azerbaijani delegation.

A member of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE, a Milli Mejlis deputy
Bahtiyar Aliyev told Trend about it.

According to him, the sittings of the committees commenced first. The
report of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population on the
problems of refugees in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia was heard.

“We voiced the protest on a number of the items of the report on the
state of refugees and internally displaced people in Azerbaijan.

The decision was taken to revise the issue with the rapporteur Boris
Shlevovitsch and then submit for discussion”.

Aliyev also underlined, the PACE Cabinet of Ministers adopted a
document recently. “It is a sort of a report on the OSCE Minsk Group
activities, which enables us to raise the issue in the subcommittee
being set up”. The PACE autumn session will last from 3 till 8 October.

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