ROMANIAN REPRESENTATIVE IN EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: "ARMENIAN PEOPLE ARE SELF-DETERMINED WITHIN ARMENIA"

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May 1 2008

Foreign minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov met with Romanian
member of the European Parliament Adrian Severin on Wednesday.

The press-service for the foreign ministry told APA that the guest
said Azerbaijan was not only oil and gas producer, it was an important
country for the European Union for its geopolitical location, dynamic
economic development and as a possible contributor for the EU-Central
Asian cooperation.

Mammadyarov has agreed with that and said first report on Azerbaijan
fulfilling the Action Plan for European Neighborhood Policy has been
already prepared and integration process into Europe caused positive
progress in a number of fields in the country.

He urged to research opportunities for the establishing of GUAM
friendship group in the European parliament.

Then the sides exchanged views on the Nagorno Karabakh problem
and condemned occupation of Azerbaijani lands and said that
veiling of Armenian ethnic cleansing policy with the principle of
self-determination was unacceptable.

Romanian parliamentarian said that self-determination principle covered
the peoples, but not the ethnic minorities and Armenian people are
self-determined within Armenia.

The sides stressed need to increase knowledge of members of the
European Parliament about Azerbaijan, to organize their visits to
Azerbaijan and to provide Lobbyist activity.