ARMENIA ATTEMPT TO DRAW WORLD ATTENTION AWAY FROM ANTI HUMAN MEASURES – VICE-SPEAKER
TREND News Agency
March 5 2008
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, Baku, 5 March / Trend News corr. S.Ilhamgizi / Bahar
Muradova, Vice Speaker, believes that the intensification of situation,
related to the current violation of the ceasefire regime by Armenian
Armed Forces on 4 and 5 March, is an obvious attempt of Armenians to
draw the world attention away from the critical situation prevailing
in the country, Muradova said to Trend News.
"Armenian ruling officials undertook anti human measures against their
own population. Therefore, Armenian Armed Forces attempted to draw
world attention away from these measures and violated the ceasefire
regime with Azerbaijan," Muradova stated.
The Vice-Speaker noted that the Foreign Policy department of Azerbaijan
informed international organizations and Minsk Group co-chairs about
the latest violations.
Azerbaijani parliament will express its relation towards the measures
of Armenians to intensify the situation.
The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began
in 1988, due to the Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan.
Since 1992, the Armenian Armed Forces have occupied 20% of Azerbaijan,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and its seven neighbouring
districts. In 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire
agreement which ended the active hostilities. The Co-Chairs of the
OSCE Minsk Group ( Russia, France, and the US) are currently holding
the peaceful negotiations.