RECOMMENDATIONS BY OSCE CANNOT BE IMPLEMENTED IN AZERBAIJANI OCCUPIED TERRITORIES

Trend News Agency
May 23 2008
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, Baku, 23 May / Trend News corr. J.Babayeva / Arif
Iskandarov, Senior Advisor in the Ecology Policy and Nature Protection
Department of the Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry, stated to
journalists that the recommendations proposed by the OSCE, related
to the fire committed in the Azerbaijani occupied Nagorno-Karabakh
and surrounding regions, cannot be implemented due to the continues
conflict.

In 2006, the OSCE mission including the World Election Monitoring
Centre, UN program on environment and experts from European Commission,
European Union and Council of Europe held a monitoring to reveal
the ecological damage done to the regions as a result of fire. The
recommendations were developed as a result of the monitoring.

Recently, the Azerbaijani MPs demanded to hold discussions in
the Parliament with participation of international organizations
and ambassadors of foreign states regarding the fire committed by
Armenians in the Azerbaijani occupied territories.

According to Iskandarov, about AZN159mln in 2006 and AZN 15mln in
2007 worth damages have been done to Azerbaijan as a result of the
fire in the occupied territories.