PACE TO EXAMINE MONUMENTS IN ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN
By Aghavni Hovhannisian
AZG Armenian Daily
20/05/2006
On May 28, Edward O’Hara, reporter of the PACE’s sub-committee on
cultural heritage, will arrive in Baku. According to Baku office of
the Council of Europe, the British parliamentarian will examine the
state of monuments in Azerbaijan and will head for Yerevan May 31.
The initiative of sending PACE representatives to Armenia and
Azerbaijan came from CE secretary general Terry Davis after the
destruction of Armenian monuments in Nakhijevan late last year. The
aim of the delegation is to examine historic and cultural monuments
in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh.
Karabakh issue
Representatives of mediating states visit region to discuss
Kocharian-Aliyev meeting
High-ranking diplomats representing the three countries mediating
in Nagorno Karabakh issue will visit Baku and Yerevan next week to
discuss prospect of Nagorno Karabakh regulation, day.az quoted Pyotr
Burdikin, Russian charge’ d’affaires in Azerbaijan, as saying.
In Russian diplomat’s words, currently the OSCE Minsk Group is
working on the soonest regulation of Karabakh issue. As to the visit
of European delegation Burdikin thinks that “often involvement of
new people helps reveal new approaches.” Pyotr Burdikin thinks that
progress in the issue is well possible but no one can be sure about
the future owing to conflict’s complex nature.
According to Russian Foreign Ministry, the delegation will include
Russia’s deputy foreign minister Grigori Karasin, assistant secretary
for European and Eurasian affairs Daniel Fried and French Foreign
Ministry political director Stanislas de Laboulaye. Besides discussing
general issues, delegation members will talk about possible meeting
between Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents.