Today.Az - Second sitting of the interim subcommittee on the Karabakh conflict of the Parliamentary Assembly of the CE was held

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13 September 2005 [10:27] - Today.Az

Second sitting of the interim subcommittee on the Karabakh conflict of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) was held in Paris yesterday.

The OSCE Minsk group co-chairmen, rapporteur on the Karabakh conflict of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Swedish parliamentarian Goran Lenmarker, other representatives of the OSCE member countries, members of the Azerbaijani and Armenian delegations in PACE, special representatives of the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia on regulation of the Karabakh conflict participated in the sitting. The member of the Azerbaijani delegation in PACE, parliamentarian Asim Mollazade made a speech in the sitting.

A.Mollazade informed APA that he demanded implementation of 4 resolutions adopted by the UNO Security Council in connection with the Karabakh conflict in his speech.

Besides it, he expressed his gratitude to PACE for observing the principle of pre-eminence of the right on the Karabakh conflict, respecting human rights and expressing its opinions on violation of rights of Azerbaijani citizens in a mass and rude form during the Karabakh conflict. “I informed that it is important to speed solution of the conflict in a peaceful way and in stages. We offered that firstly refugees and displaced people must return to their native lands, their security must be ensured, then communication lines must be opened, and normal and civil relations must be established between the two sides. Only after this the question of juridical solution of the conflict must be reviewed”.

According to the words of A.Mollazade, the head of the Azerbaijani delegation in PACE Samad Seyidov, members of the Minsk Group, OSCE raporteur on the conflict also made speeches in the sitting. Then the sitting was continued in a closed form.

A.Mollazade informed that declarations of the special representatives of the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia and a document on the result of the sitting of the subcommittee will be prepared at the end of the sitting. The working plan on the Karabakh conflict of the subcommittee will also be asserted in the close sitting.

A.Mollazade will participate in the sitting of the PACE subcommittee on Chechnya and PACE Political Committee tomorrow. He was intended to make speeches in these sittings as well.