PACE COMMITTEE CONDEMNED ARMENIAN WAR AGAINST AZERBAIJAN

Democratic Azerbaijan
Ïðaâî Âûaîða, Azerbaijan
June 13 2006

On June 9 the regular session of the Committee for Environment,
Agriculture and Regional Affairs of the Parliamentary Assembly of
the Council of Europe was held in Paris. Rafael Huseynov, member of
Azerbaijani delegation to PACE, MP attended the session.

The session was focused on a number of urgent problems and discussed
the report entitled Prevention of Forest Fires in Europe. The report
was prepared by Inaki Tueka, a MP from Spain.

Concerning the report R. Huseynov told: Forests are called ‘lungs’
of nature. Their preservation is the preservation of our today and
our future, and also a work on behalf of our health. Already for 15
years Armenia is keeping 20% Azerbaijani lands under occupation. In
spite of that Armenia has occupied the lands 15 years ago, throughout
this period Armenia is waging regular ecology war against Azerbaijan.

The forests, flora and fauna in occupied territories of Azerbaijan are
being exterminated, and nuclear wastes are being buried in non-control
lands. All that is extremely dangerous phenomenon.

But one more act of vandalism committed by Armenia in occupied
territories several days ago is directly linked with the problem,
which is discussing at the session and challenge serious concern.

Armenians arrange large-scale fires in some villages of the occupied
Aghdam situated beyond the bounds of Nagorno-Garabagh. These fires
lead to annihilation not only of forests and plants but productive
topsoil, and also extermination of flora and fauna in these lands
not only today but further.

On the other hand, the explosion of mines laid by Armenian armed
forces in the territories wherein fires occur, terrified the people
living in neighbor villages.

Council of Europe should not be indifferent to this point. Fires,
including forest fires – are always tragedy and it is always
dangerous. Usually, these months CE is discussing fires occurring in
European forests, as a result of disasters. But it is very terrible
when the people themselves make fires. Armenia made particularly
such fires in occupied territories of Azerbaijan. As these lands are
out of control of Azerbaijan as well as international organizations,
nobody address that. Council of Europe should immediately address this
point and undertake measures for prevention of this fact of vandalism
committed by Armenia, damaging serious damnification to Azerbaijan’s
nature and environment of the adjacent frontier region.

Summarizing discussion results, Walter Schmidt, Committee Chairman,
a MP from Sweden, told that he felt concern with Azerbaijan and
expressed an absolute concern and underlined as necessity to discuss
this point in upcoming PACE session.

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