AZERI MP SAYS PACE REPORT PROVES ARMENIAN OCCUPATION

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
April 5 2006

Baku, April 4, AssA-Irada
The Council of Europe’s report on the plight of armies in the former
Soviet Union republics indicates that part of Azerbaijani territories
have been occupied not by some Armenian troops, but Armenia itself.

The document will be put on discussion at the June session of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

The Azeri MPs at the Assembly have developed feedback on the critical
remarks mentioned in the report.

The PACE document expressed the most criticism on the condition of the
Armenian military. An Azeri delegate Gultakin Hajiyeva says rapporteur
Alexander Arabachiyev’s criticism in this respect is quite fair. She
welcomed that Arabachiyev also aired his grievances over the fact
soldiers drafted to the Armenian military are sent to Upper Garabagh
and other Azeri regions under occupation.

“This once again proves that the army of the Armenian Republic, but not
some Armenian military divisions, occupies Azerbaijan’s territories,”
Hajiyeva said.