Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
June 9 2007

YAP sends protest letter to Yuri Merzlyakov and Matthew Bryza

[ 09 Jun 2007 14:53 ]

New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) has sent a protest letter to OSCE Minsk
Group co-chairs Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia) and Matthew Bryza (USA)
against their statement in Yerevan.
The letter reads that Merzlyakov’s statement in Yerven on June 7 is
far from objectivity and harm the conflict settlement process. About
Bryza’s statement saying `Azerbaijan occupies some territories of
Nagorno Karabakh’, YAP’s protest letter reads `There has never
existed an independent state of Nagorno Karabakh either in the past
or now, and that’s way it can’t have any internationally recognized
borders. Nagorno Karabakh is an inalienable part of Azerbaijan and it
is a farce to say Azerbaijan occupies its own territory’.
The letter concludes that the reckless and untrue statements by
co-chair countries’ diplomats harm the settlement process and cause
regret and concern.
`This proves that either they are unaware of the history of the
conflict or they are obviously biased,’ the letter says.
/APA-Economics/