Council of Europe approves committee to deal with Karabakh
Azad Azarbaycan TV, Baku
27 Apr 05
[Presenter] The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe [PACE]
has approved the composition of the temporary committee to deal with
the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict. In addition to parties to the conflict
and the chairmen of PACE committees, representatives of six countries
were included in the committee. The former chairman of the assembly,
British MP Russell Johnston, will lead the committee.
[Correspondent over video of the Council of Europe building in
Strasbourg] The PACE has approved the composition of the temporary
committee for the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict. The committee will
tackle the implementation of Article 5 of the [PACE] resolution which
deals with the conflict in the Nagornyy Karabakh region. It will be
headed by Lord Russell Johnston.
A source in the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE has told “Son Xabar”
that the new committee will include the heads of the delegations from
Azerbaijan, Armenia, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Sweden and
Turkey, the chairmen of the PACE political affairs and monitoring
committees, and MPs from Turkey and Romania, Abdulkadir Ates and
(?Georgiy Chukhrumba).
The committee also includes the Azerbaijani and Armenian members of
the monitoring group, co-rapporteurs Andreas Gross and Anders Herkel
and the author of the report on Nagornyy Karabakh, David Atkinson.
The committee’s mission will be to collect, on a yearly basis, reports
from countries and entities where [PACE] members are represented about
the work done to achieve a negotiated solution to the
conflict. Members of the temporary committee are expected to visit
Baku, Yerevan and the conflict region.
Vaqif Aydinoglu for “Son Xabar”.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress