RESOLUTION SHOULD BE SOUGHT FOR IN TALKS
Laura Grigorian

Azat Artsakh, Republic of Nagorno Karabakh
Sept 21 2006

On September 18 the PACE reporter on the missing Leo Platvoet and
the secretary of the PACE Committee of Migration, Refugees and
Population, Marc Neville visited the office of the NKR Society of
the Missing Soldiers. The guests first watched the museum of the
missing soldiers, got acquainted with the work of the organization and
afterwards met with the relatives of the missing soldiers. In July,
the representatives of the Council of Europe visited Baku, Yerevan
and Tbilisi, and this time they are visiting Nagorno Karabakh and
Abkhazia. The guests were interested in any information about the
missing soldiers and their place, as well as cooperation between the
society and their Azerbaijani counterparts. The chair of the society
Vera Grigorian, as well as the relatives of the missing soldiers
informed referring to the facts they have at hand that there are
still Armenian prisoners in Baku prisons, but the Baku authorities
deny this. The mothers asked the representatives of the CoE to report
their voice to the international organizations to help find out the
fate of 239 missing people. "The unpalatable truth is better for
us than the reassuring lie," they said. The representatives of the
CoE were also interested to know about the relations of this NGO and
the NKR government, their assistance to the society. Vera Grigorian,
the chair of the society said the families of the missing people are
constantly in the focus of attention of the government. She also
said they met with their Azerbaijani counterparts in Tbilisi and
several cities in Russia but these meetings produced no results. The
representatives of the CoE promised to report the problem to relevant
organizations. "We cannot go and search for the missing. This is not
our objective. We see the settlement of the problem in the talks of
the parties," said Leo Platvoet.