ARMENIAN DELEGATION NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN BSEC PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY IN BAKU ON NOVEMBER 22-23

Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Nov 20 2006

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian delegation will not
participate in the 28th session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (BSEC) in Baku on November
22-23. The reason is that no guarantees of the delegation members’
security have been provided.

According to Gagik Minasian, the head of the Armenian delegation, the
Chairman of the RA National Assembly Standing Committee of Financial,
Credit, Budgetary and Economic Isuues, he applied officially to the
Azerbaijani side in anticipation of guarantees but his application
remained unanswered. G. Minasian had to apply to the International
Secretariate of the PA BSEC, whose headquarters are in Istanbul. He
received official informatiom from the Secretary General Alexey
Kudryavtsev that the Azerbaijani authotities have not responded to
his verbal and written applications.