Azeri leader, Council of Europe envoy discuss Karabakh conflict
Assa-Irada
16 Mar 05
BAKU
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has described as positive the
discussions held at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of
Europe [PACE] on the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict. He said this at a
meeting with PACE rapporteur on political prisoners Malcolm Bruce on
15 March. The OSCE Minsk Group has a direct mandate to settle the
conflict, he added. Aliyev simultaneously urged international
organizations, including the Council of Europe, to pay more attention
to the problem. Aliyev expressed confidence that the discussions held
at the PACE and the adopted documents will play an important role in
resolving the conflict.
Bruce described the latest [PACE] report on the Nagornyy Karabakh
conflict as fair and said that President Aliyev’s speech at the PACE
[in 2004] played a very important role in the adoption of the
aforesaid document. The European MPs highly assessed the opinions
reflected in the speech on the fulfilment of Azerbaijan’s commitments
to the organization and on the resolution of the conflict, Bruce
added.