PETITIONS ON FATE OF SHAHUMIAN AND GETASHEN REGIONS DELIVERED TO U.S. AND FRENCH EMBASSIES IN YEREVAN
DeFacto Agency, Armenia
June 14 2007
June 13 Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun Youth Union
and Nikol Aghbalian Student Union organized a procession arranged for
the 15th anniversary of the Nagorno-Karabagh Shahumian and Getashen
regions’ occupation by Azerbaijan.
The action’s participants headed for the U. S., French and Russian
embassies in Yerevan to urge them to pay attention to the territories’
issue, IA REGNUM reports. To note, these countries’ representatives are
OSCE Minsk group Co-Chairs, dealing with the Nagorno-Karabagh conflict
settlement. As for the Russian embassy, no one went out to the protest
rally’s participants, who stood at the building over 10 minutes. The
embassy’s security officers – the representatives of RA National
Security Service – did not allow making photos near the building.
According to a representative of ARFD Youth Union Zinavor Mehrian,
the fate of thousands of inhabitants of the Shahumian region remains
indeterminate. "The issue of the territory is not on the talks’
agenda", Zinavor Mehrian stated.
The action’s participants were holding transparencies "Nakhijevan,
Shahumian – restore the chain", "Our rights – your obligations",
"15 years of silence are equal to 15 years of injustice". To remind,
Shahumian region was captures by the Azeri troops in 1992.
Getashen region was occupied by the Azeri troops in 1991.