DISCUSSIONS IN UN WILL NOT TO INFLUENCE NAGORNO-KARABAKH SETTLEMENT: KLO CHAIRMAN

TREND Information, Azerbaijan
Sept 25 2007

Azerbaijan, Baku /corr. Trend I.Alizade / The Chairman of the Karabakh
Liberation Organization (KLO), Akif Nagi, said on 25 September in Baku
that discussions which will take place at the 62nd session of the UN
General Assembly with regards to the ‘protracted conflicts’ in GUAM
countries will not influence the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict. " Armenia should be recognized as occupant during the
specially held session of the UN General Assembly. Only in this
way is it possible to influence the settlement of the conflict,"
Nagi stressed.

The 62nd session of the UN General Assembly will cover the frozen
conflicts in the territory of GUAM participating countries ( Georgia,
Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova).

The conflict between the two countries of South Caucasus began in 1988
due to territorial claims by Armenia against Azerbaijan. Armenia has
occupied 20% of Azerbaijani land including the Nagorno-Karabakh region
and its seven surrounding Districts. Since 1992, these territories
have been under the occupation of the Armenian Forces. In 1994,
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which time
active hostilities ended. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (
Russia, France and USA) are currently holding peaceful negotiations.

The KLO chairman considers that Russia will not allow the UN to pass
an anti-Armenian resolution.

The Karabakh Organization Committee (KLO) was founded in Baku on
28 January 2000 with the aim of conducting a public struggle for
the liberation of Nagorno-Karabakh from the Armenian occupants. The
organization, headed by Akif Nagi, a candidate in historical sciences,
unites over 10,000 people, including outstanding representatives of
intelligentsia, refugees and internally displaced people, youths,
former veterans, senior ranking officers in reserve, as well as
different social segments of the population.