HEARINGS ON FROZEN CONFLICTS BEING HELD IN BERLIN

ArmInfo-Turan
2007-11-05 20:01:00

On the initiative of the Monitoring Committee of the Council of
Europe, frozen conflicts will be extensively discussed in Berlin
on November 5-6, Turan reports referring to Head of the Azeri
delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
(PACE) Samed Seidov. According to him, the frozen conflicts in the
CIS, particularly, in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova will be discussed
in Berlin. The hearings on the prospects for the solution of problems
in the South Caucasus and Transdniestria will be presided over by Head
of the PACE Sub-committee on Nagorno-Karabakh Lord Russell-Johnston.

Jonathan Cohen, the Caucasus program manager at the London-based
Conciliation Resources NGO, and Nottingham University Professor Stephan
Wolf are expected to make reports. The issue of frozen conflicts
was discussed at the PACE Monitoring Committee’s session in Skopje,
Macedonia, in May, where an agreement was reached to discuss the
frozen conflicts in Berlin in November.