AN AZERBAIJANI MP SAYS AZERBAIJAN WILL FACE NO SANCTIONS IN PACE SPRING SESSION
Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
March 30 2007
Azerbaijan, Baku/ Trend , corr. I. Alizadeh/ Rafael Husseynov, a
Member of the Azerbaijani Parliament of the Milli Majlis, Member of
the Azerbaijani Delegation to PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of Council
of Europe), has said that Azerbaijan will face no sanctions in the
forthcoming PACE Spring Session.
He noted that Azerbaijan had fulfilled most of commitments taken
before the Council of Europe. "I think that the forthcoming discussions
will hold normally, since the commitments have been fulfilled," said
Mr. Husseynov. The Azerbaijani MP also noted that as compared with
the period, when Azerbaijan had just joined the Council of Europe,
now, the number of those PACE delegates, who protect the interests
of our country, has increased.
"During the first years, we prepared documents concerning the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflicts, by including the four Resolutions of the
U. N. Security Council. However, when the word "occupant" was put
before the Armenian State, most delegates not only repudiated to
sign corresponding documents, but also treated us abusively. But,
time has passed, and as a result of the work, we could carry out,
their attitude to us has changed for the better. As a result of it,
some 300-400 PACE delegates signed documents that Armenian was a
country-occupant, and, moreover, in 2005, the Organization passed the
resolution that Armenia was really an occupant," said Mr. Husseynov.