NATO REPORT ON SOUTH CAUCASUS TO BE REVIEWED
Author: J.Shahverdiyev

TREND, Azerbaijan
Oct 17 2006

A delegation headed by the Chairman of the Sub-committee on
Future Security and Defense Opportunities of the Defense & Security
Commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO, Vahid Erdem, met on
16 October with the Chairman of the Permanent Parliamentary Commission
on International Relationships and Inter-parliamentary Bond of the
Milli Majlis [Azerbaijani parliament] as well as the head of the
Azerbaijani delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe (PACE), MP Samed Såyidov, Trend reports.

Seyidov stressed that Azerbaijan is actively integrating into Europe
and the Euro-Atlantic area. "During his visit to Germany and at the
opening of the Autumn session of Milli Majlis, Azerbaijan President
Ilham Aliyev re-iterated the fact. Our integration into Europe is
one of the major steps taken with regards to our foreign policy,
our relationship with NATO is also developing and we are very keen
to pursue it," Seyidov stressed.

The Chairman of the Permanent Parliamentary Commission noted that NATO
is developing a report on South Caucasus countries and it contains some
inaccurate data. The occupation of 20% of Azerbaijani territory by
Armenia, which resulted in the replacement of 1 million Azerbaijanis
from their native land, as well as the fact that Nagorno-Karabakh was
always part of Azerbaijan, was depicted wrongly in the document. These
facts were included in the resolution issued by the UN Security
Council, documents of the Council of Europe and OSCE. We hope that
after the visit, serious changes will be injected into the document.

The head of the delegation noted that the key objective of the visit
is to collect detailed information on the facts. "We will work on
the document to ensure that the details are precise," he stated.

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