OSCE PA REJECTS MAKING A LEGAL AND POLITICAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT

Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
May 17 2007

Azerbaijan, Baku / corr. Trend I.Alizade / The report of the Chairman
of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Goran Lennmarker regarding
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will not be discussed at the summer
session of the organization, said Eldar Ibrahimov, the member of the
Azerbaijani delegation to OSCE PA and also Chairman of Azerbaijan
Parliament’s Permanent Commission on Agrarian Policy. In addition,
Goran Lennmarker is OSCE PA’s rapporteur on Nagorno-Karabakh.

"The last parliamentary elections recently took place in Armenia.

Presently it is impossible if parliament will be formed in Armenian
by July and therefore it is unsure who will represent the Country
at the OSCE PA. For this reason, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and
Lennmarker’s report are not expected to be discussed," Ibrahimov
said. In addition, Ibrahimov said that there have been no changes made
to the report. According to him, the Parliamentary Assembly tries to
stay away from this question because OSCE Minsk Group undertook holding
peaceful negotiations on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement. "They
avoid discussing Lennmarker’s report and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
in general," Ibrahimov said.

The Azerbaijan delegation member said that despite this the Azerbaijani
delegation will raise the Nagorno-Karabakh question at the summer
session of the OSCE PA. "We have always tried to include the issue in
the program of the OSCE PA and receive political and legal assessment,
but each time, the Armenian delegation tries to prevent us. We present
to the European parliamentarian the realities about Nagorno-Karabakh,
and generally about Azerbaijan," he said.

According to Ibrahimov, Lennmarker’s report contains incidents
satisfying and dissatisfying Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan needs only one
word of the OSCE PA. "Let this organization as the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe officially recognize Armenia as an
occupant country. The Resolution that will be adopted by the Kiev
session should reflect that Armenia has occupied 20% of Azerbaijan
territories and that Nagorno-Karabakh is under the control of
separatists and terrorist forces," Ibrahimov said.

Despite that Lennmarker’s report was prepared several years ago,
with various pretexts, the OSCE PA rejects discussion of the document.