Azerbaijani political expert comments on activities of Public Council on Karabakh

“First, some council members were part of the Dortmund conference: this is US-Russian, Armenian- Azerbaijan  public format, which developed an interim status for Nagorno-Karabakh. After this the development was included in the list of formal proposals,” Alizade said.

“The second proposal was about giving official status to the Azerbaijani community of Nagorno-Karabakh to enable it to participate in the negotiations. The third proposal is to set up a group of public support for the OSCE Minsk Group activities.”

“This will include representatives of Armenian and Azerbaijani NGOs that support a peaceful solution to be reached within the framework of OSCE Minsk Group negotiation process,” Alizade said.

He said  consultative and advisory body called the Public Council on Karabakh.has operated for about three years upon the initiative of a number of prominent public figures, politicians, academics, representatives of non-governmental sector of Azerbaijan, as well as representatives of the Karabakh Azerbaijanis.  

“The initiative to create this organization belongs to Arzu Abdullayeva. This is not official and unregistered organization with a greater circle of people. IT includes a number of other people as well,” the political expert said.

Alizadeh said that the experts are developing models of the Karabakh conflict settlement, keep track of the negotiation process and attempt to support their decisions at a public level.

/Novosti Azerbaijan/