AKHUNDOVA: “NK CONFLICT CAUSES EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS FOR NATIONAL MINORITIES”

Today, Azerbaijan
April 11 2006

A report on teaching of native language at secondary schools was
presented at the session of PACE which started yesterday.

The correspondent of the Europe bureau of APA reports from the session
that Azerbaijani parliamentarians Elmira Akhundova and Rafael Huseynov
delivered a speech on the issue.

Ms.Akhundova said that European Convention main recommendations on
protection of rights of national minorities in Azerbaijan has been
implemented successfully, and national minorities in Azerbaijan were
enjoying their right to receive education in their native tongues
without any restrictions.

“However, internally displaced Kurds from Lachin, Gubadli, Kalbajar,
which were occupied by Armenians as a result of the Karabakh conflict,
faced difficulties to get education in native language now.

If the conflict is solved on the basis of the principle of preserving
territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, the government can provide more
intensive assistance for the education of the national minorities,”
she said.

Azerbaijani MP Rafael Huseynov said that there were no problems on
national minorities in Azerbaijan and added that there were many
national minorities speaking different languages, and these nations
are provided great opportunities to read and write in their native
language in the country.

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