RESETTLEMENT IS URGENT

KarabakhOpen
15-06-2007 11:25:48

"I think resettlement of liberated territories is urgent. But it
requires immense funds and human resources," said the chair of the
Committee of Defense, Security and Law Enforcement Rudolf Martirosyan.

"It depends on which territories are resettled. Resettlement of border
territories is dangerous, and people should be granted privileges to
go and live there. You cannot make people live somewhere. First you
must provide conditions. If there are already villages where people
live, it is necessary to create conditions for them," said Rudolf
Martirosyan. He also emphasized since the Karabakh problem has not
been settled yet, the solution of many other problems is delayed. Many
think if they live in these territories, which may become an object
of trade, they will lose years.

According to Rudolf Martirosyan, the resettlement of liberated
territories after the cease-fire did not become a government policy,
it was not regulated. "Most people who settled in these territories
had been displaced from Azerbaijan. When they started living in
these territories, necessity occurred to provide conditions, and the
government took care of it. Independent from how long people will live
here, communities will be created or not, the international community
must acknowledge this reality, and this issue need not be negotiated
or used as small change," says the members of parliament.

"No patch of land will be returned," the member of parliament said in
connection with the liberated territories: He says there can always
be a compromise but it has to be decided in negotiations, not in the
media or statements of some politicians.

"Azerbaijan makes such claims, and the Karabakh side must not hurry
to state it is ready to return some territories. I see no need in
such discussions. These issues should be negotiated, and Karabakh
should take part in it," he said.