NA SPEAKER ATTACHES IMPORTANCE TO DISCUSSION OF MISSSING PEOPLE’S ISSUE ON HUMANE PLANE AND KEEPING FROM POLITICAL SPECULATIONS

Noyan Tapan
June 06 2006

YEREVAN, JUNE 6, NOYAN TAPAN. RA National Assembly Speaker Tigran
Torosian received on June 5 Leo Platvoet, the PACE Migration, Refugees
and Population Committee Rapporteur on Missiong People in Armenia,
Georgia and Azerbaijan.

Issues relating to the report to be prepared as a result of
L.Platvoet’s regional visit were discussed. Tigran Torosian attached
importance to discussion of the issue on the humane plane and keeping
from political speculations, having a task to help people as much
as possible to clear up fate of their friends missed during the
war and later. Expressing satisfaction that Leo Platvoet met with
representatives of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh as well, the NA
Speaker proposed to visit Nagorno Karabakh and create a working group
in a tripartite format from representatives of Armenia, Azerbaijan
and Karabakh who working directly with each other, will be able
to help searches of missing people. Agreeing with this proposal,
L.Platvoet mentioned that he envisages to propose sides in his report
to start a cooperation at the level of organizations engaged in these
problems. As Noyan Tapan was informed by the NA Public Relations
Department, interparliamentary relations of Armenia and Azerbaijan
were also touched upon: Tigran Torosian mentioned that Armenia is
ready for cooperation that is already being implemented in different
formats: meetings in international structures, within the framework of
parliamentary initiative of South Caucasus as it attached importance
to creation of a beneficial atmosphere for solutions of big issues
by small steps, small solutions. The NA Speaker drew attention to
that circumstance that false rumours are always spread in Azerbaijani
press about Armenians’ violent attitude towards missing people what
deepens hatred, while 1416 PACE resolution calls on to guard oneself
from propaganda of hatred.