NAGORNO KARABAKH DEPUTY: "AZERBAIJAN THOROUGHLY AVOIDS DIRECT COMMUNICATIONS WITH NKR"

REGNUM
September 20, 2006

Chairman of Nagorno Karabakh parliamentary commission on foreign
relations Vagram Atanesyan received on Sep 18 with PACE rapporteur
on missing persons Leo Platvoet. The sides discussed issues of
locating persons missing since the Nagorno Karabakh-Azerbaijani armed
confrontation, REGNUM correspondent reports referring to the Nagorno
Karabakh parliament press office.

Leo Platvoet noted that he had already visited Yerevan, Tbilisi, and
Baku as a part of implementing the missing persons program. Answering
the guest’s request, Vagram Atanesyan articulated NKR parliament
position on the issue of missing military and civil persons. He
said that regretfully, the Azerbaijani side thoroughly avoids direct
communications with NKR on all issues, including humanitarian ones.

According to Atanesyan, this impairs efforts taken to locate the
missing people. The sides expressed hope that the international
community, including European structures concerned, will soon
facilitate a perceptible progress in this field.