Report on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will be discussed at the NATO PA autumn session

Regnum, Russia
Oct 20 2006

A report on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will be submitted for
discussion at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s autumn session,
says the head of the Azeri delegation to the NATO PA Ziyat Askerov.

A source from the Azerbaijani Parliament reports Askerov to say
that the document is almost ready. Not everything is satisfactory
in it though: for example, the report says that "15% of Azerbaijan’s
territories are occupied and that there are 600,000-700,000 refugees
and internally displaced persons." That’s why the Azerbaijani side
has protested against this point and has offered its amendments. "We
have also provided them with documents proving that Nagorno-Karabakh
is Azerbaijan’s historical land and that Armenians were just resettled
there."

The draft of the report was discussed with the chairman of the
Sub-Committee on Future Security and Defense of the NATO PA Defense
and Security Committee Vahid Erdem during his visit to Baku.