AZERBAIJANI DELEGATION COMES OUT WITH REGULAR ARTIFICIAL ACCUSATIONS TO ARMENIA AT CONFERENCE IN TBILISI

ArmInfo
2008-11-24 13:04:00

ArmInfo. International Conference, dedicated to the issues of
judicial-legal reforms in the South Caucasus countries, was held
in Tbilisi on November 19-20 with participation of delegations from
Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan under the auspices of these countries’
justice ministers. (Azerbaijan was represented by the first deputy
justice minister).

The delegation included representatives of the judicial authority,
the Bar and Prosecutor’s Office. The three countries’ ombudsmen were
also invited to the conference, which was conducted by Council of
Europe deputy Secretary General Maud de Boer-Buquicchio. Each party
at the conference presented a report on the course of implementation
of judicial-legal reforms. The issues of efficiency enhancement
and strengthening of independence of the South Caucasus countries’
judicial system were also discussed. After the conference, Maud de
Boer-Buquicchio met heads of the delegations and discussed some issues
of the prospects of implementation of judicial- legal reforms.

As the Justice Ministry spokeswoman Lana Mshetsyan told ArmInfo,
during the conference, the Azerbaijani party came out with statements
against Armenia and emphasized that "aggression by Armenia hinders the
Azerbaijan authorities to assure supremacy of law at the territory
of the". The Armenian party replied and explained in details that
Azerbaijan is trying to discredit Armenia every time at different
conferences speaking on a template and distorting the facts. Armenia’s
Justice Minister Gevork Danielyan also emphasized that both aggressive
actions and violations of international standards and principles were
made just by Azerbaijan, in particular, mass killing of people by
ethnic signs, disregard of the nation’s right for self-determination,
etc.

Now, he said, when the presidents of both republics take serious
steps on the way of general settlement of the conflict, such methods
of Azerbaijan on artificial aggravation of international relations
confirm that some Azerbaijani forces are not interested in civilized
methods of the problem solution. It was resolved that the statements by
the Azerbaijani delegation will not be included in the final document
of the conference. Only a reference will be made to the Azerbaijani
party’s special opinion. It has been emphasized in this special
opinion that aggression took place in the territory of Azerbaijan
and it rules out assurance of supremacy of the law.

At the suit of G. Danielyan a reference to the special opinion of
Armenia, where the above-mentioned arguments of the Armenian party
were given in details, was also included.