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Azeri MPs dissatisfied with Burjanadze's addressing NATO PA session

26 May 2007 [14:47] - TODAY.AZ
Georgia's Parliament Speaker Nino Burjanadze addressed the NATO Parliamentary Assembly's Spring Session in Portugal, saying her country takes vital part in delivery of the Caspian energy resources to Europe.

She added that Georgia experienced Russia's pressures and solved various problems.

In her speech Burjanadze called on the world community to support Ukraine in its difficulties but she was interrupted by a Ukrainian parliamentary.

"You mind your own business. Ukraine will find a way-out," she heard.

Going on speaking, Nino Burjanadze said that granting independence to Kosovo can't be a precedent for other "frozen conflicts" which she referred to South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transdnestrian conflicts, but didn't touch on Nagorno Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Gudrat Hasanguliyev, a member of Azerbaijani delegation, protested against her speech but Georgian MPs told him that Burjanadze forgot to refer to Nagorno Karabakh because she was "angry and uneasy" while speaking.

Hasanguliyev told APA correspondent that Georgian representatives came up to him and said: "Nagorno Karabakh conflict is of different character. Here separatists don't push for independence but Armenia tries to annex this territory," Georgian delegation members sought excuse.

"I told them that it is not correctly based answer. They knew that Armenians declared a puppet republic in Nagorno Karabakh, an inalienable territory of Azerbaijan, and "elected" puppet "president" and "parliament" there. I explained them that this position doesn't agree with neighborhood relations and cooperation," Hasanguliyev said.

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