ALAS KARABAKHIS DO NOT ENJOY THIS RIGHT

Lragir.am
05-11-2007 14:50:00

The settlement of the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh has been lasting too
long and it needs to be resolved at last, the CoE Secretary General
Terry Davis stated November 5 in Yerevan during the news conference
with the Armenian foreign minister Vardan Oskanyan. Davis said he
does not want it to sound like criticism against the OSCE Minsk Group
and the leaderships of Armenia and Azerbaijan. "However, it is in the
interests of people to have the conflict settled," Terry Davis says.

According to him, there are many more important things in life other
than the Karabakh conflict, meanwhile, the unresolved issue distracts
focus from those key issues. The CoE Secretary General thinks the
conflict takes not only attention but also money which could have
been used for better purposes.

The CoE Secretary General is hopeful that the conflict will be
resolved, and Karabakh will benefit from the CoE programs. In this
connection, Terry Davis made an interesting statement. He regrets
that some individuals living in Karabakh do not enjoy the right to
dispute issues at the European Court of Human Rights. Terry Davis
says physically the people living in Nagorno-Karabakh cannot go to the
ECHR, meanwhile it is highly important for a citizen to be protected
from the government, Terry Davis says. He also said turning to Vardan
Oskanyan sitting beside him that such a democratic activist as Vardan
Oskanyan perhaps would also want the people of Karabakh to enjoy this
right. Vardan Oskanyan did not react to this, either through words
or gestures.