AZERBAIJAN LIES TO ITS REFUGES BY PROMISES TO RETURN THEM THEIR FORMER RESIDENCES

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
17.09.2009 20:56 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In case certain NKR territories are returned to
Azerbaijan, most of Azeri refugees will have the chance to return
to their former residences, NKR ex-Foreign Minister Arman Melikyan
told a press conference in Yerevan. However, the politician finds
such prospects unfeasible considering possible geographic changes
that will make the territories uninhabitable. Azerbaijani side is
well aware of that and has agreed to the project.

"The thing is that Iran is currently building a huge water reservoir
on Arax. In case it is exploited, former Azeri- populated lands will
go beneath water," Arman Melikyan said. At that he noted that it was
a very big territory unfit for habitation so Azerbaijan lies to its
refuges by promises to return them their former residences.

"If Armenian side had more clearly expressed its position, we wouldn’t
be facing the problem now," Melikyan said, adding that authorities
in Armenia and Karabakh should work hard within the coming years to
provide final solution to the problem.