TODAY.AZ / Politics

Asim Mollazada: “OSCE Minsk group can’t be replaced with pace sub-commission on Nagorno-Karabakh”

14 June 2005 [09:12] - TODAY.AZ
The first meeting of the PACE sub-commission on the Nagorno-Karabakh problem is expected to be held under the summer session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on 20-24 June, MP Asim Mollazada, an Azerbaijani parliamentary representative to the PACE, told Trend.
Mollazada ruled out the replacement of the OSCE Minsk Group. «This is absolutely a different format. The CE will not undertake the function of the OSCE, which acts as mediator in the negotiation process,» Mollazada underlined. He noted that the CE will attach more and more attention to issue under its own competence, but namely the rights of IDPs and provision of the superiority of the law, in particular, the legal solution to the conflict.

Tofik Zulfugarov, the ex-Foreign Minister, also sees as impossible the replacement of the Minsk Group with a PACE sub-commission on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. «I don’t think the sub-commission to be able to replace the Minsk Group as a negotiation format,” the political expert underlined. Zulfugarov said that with assistance of the sub-commission the PACE could syndicate the discussion of humanitarian issues, linked with Karabakh conflict. In particular, humanitarian catastrophe that Azerbaijan has faced as a result of deportation of over 1 million refugees and IDPs from Armenia and occupied territory of Azerbaijan.

Along with interested sides the sub-commission also included the representatives from 6 countries – France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Sweden and Turkey, as well as the chairmen of the PACE committees, co-rapporteurs of the PACE Monitoring Committee Andreas Gross and Andreas Herkel, author of the report on Nagorno-Karabakh, David Atkinson.

URL: http://www.today.az/news/politics/19620.html

Print version

Views: 3064

Connect with us. Get latest news and updates.

Recommend news to friend

  • Your name:
  • Your e-mail:
  • Friend's name:
  • Friend's e-mail: