CHAIRMAN OF CE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS: "MEETINGS BETWEEN AZERBAIJANI AND ARMENIAN PRESIDENTS WILL BRING THE SOLUTION TO THE CONFLICT CLOSER"

Azeri Press Agency
June 23 2008
Azerbaijan

Strasburg. Fuad Gulubeyli-APA. Chairman of the Council of Europe’s
Committee of Ministers and Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt made
a report on the first working day of PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of
the Council of Europe) summer session.

He said his organization always kept the situation in the
South Caucasus in the focus of attention, APA European bureau
reports. "Elections in this region were accompanied by some
violations. It is necessary to eliminate these violations and to
achieve democratic elections". Carl Bildt said Council of Europe
gave a fundamental importance to the territorial integrity of
Georgia. "There is no doubt that Abkhazia will be granted with
the wide autonomous status in future, but it has not to shadow the
territorial integrity of Georgia, because it can create threat for
the stability in the region". Answering the question of Azerbaijani
parliamentarian Ganira Pashayeva "Why doesn’t Council of Europe demand
from Armenia to fulfill its obligation to withdraw its forces from the
Azerbaijani territories?", Bildt said the solution to this conflict
was out of authority of the Council of Europe. "I can say only that
the negotiations over the conflict solution are developing and the
presidents of both countries met in St. Petersburg recently. I have
no information about the results of this meeting, but I can say that
we should support such kind of meetings because these meetings will
bring the solution to the conflict closer".