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Elbrus Tahmazov: "Liberation of Lachin region cannot be separate issue in negotiating process"

18 May 2006 [19:59] - TODAY.AZ
"The liberation of Azerbaijan's Lachin region from Armenian occupation cannot be discussed separately during the negotiating process for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict," Lachin governor Elbrus Tahmazov told journalists.

According to APA, he said that Armenians will not achieve their aims to discuss Lachin's liberation as a separate issue in the negotiations. Tahmazov stressed that the region will sure to be liberated either by peaceful or other ways.

He also gave information on the people of Lachin who have become internally displaced persons after the occupation. The region has 67,000 people, and now they have settled in 59 regions. Nearly 20,000 IDPs from Lachin have settled in Baku, Sumgayit and Absheron regions of Azerbaijan. 17,300 of them are now living in Aghjabedi, Takhta Korpu, (territory of Lachin) in 84 large nomad tents.

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