TURKIC-SPEAKING COUNTRIES’ PA TO LIKELY DEBATE NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT
Today.Az
Aug 26 2009
Azerbaijan
The first session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Turkic-speaking
Countries (PATC) to be held in Baku in September may debate the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
"The agenda and issues to be discussed in the session will be
determined at the first meeting of the General Assembly. The
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict may also be included on the agenda,"
Azerbaijani Parliamentarian and Member of the Azerbaijani Delegation
to the PATC Nizami Jafarov said.
Jafarov said Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan refused to join the
PATC. "These countries have not yet made a final decision on this
issue. There is a hope that Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan will also
join the organization," the parliamentarian said.
An agreement was reached at the last year’s meeting of heads of
the Turkish-countries’ parliaments held in Istanbul to form the
Parliamentary Assembly which included Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan and Turkey. Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan refused to join it.
Baku will host the first session of the PATC in late September.
Jafarov said the Association of the Parliamentary Journalists will
be soon established under the PATC.
"If even the Turkmen and Uzbek parliamentarians do not attend the Baku
session of the PA, journalists of these countries can be invited to
this event. At present we are working over these issues," he said.