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British MPs criticize Chatham House

7 July 2015 14:54 (UTC+04:00)
British MPs criticize Chatham House

British MPs Lord Kilclooney and Stephen Hepburn have made statements criticizing Chatham House`s inviting a so-called ‘president’ of the unrecognized regime in Nagorno-Karabakh to speak, AzerTac state news agency reported.

"It is disgraceful that Bako Sahakyan, so-called ‘president’ of the unrecognized regime in Nagorno-Karabakh, has been invited to speak at London’s Chatham House,” Lord Kilclooney said in the statement.

Chatham House will hold discussions on the situation concerning Nagorno-Karabakh, regional security, and relations between different regional actors in London on July 8

“Close to one million Azerbaijanis were displaced from the occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh by Armenia, representatives from this community should be invited to speak rather than those who forced them to leave their homes.”

“Sahakyan is unrecognized by the international community, by inviting him like this Chatham House dimities its own standing and is giving him a level of legitimacy he does not deserve. There are already four UN Security Council Resolutions with regard to NK and it is time they were implemented,” he added.

Mr Hepburn , for his part said, there is no way that Bako Sahakyan, so-called ‘president’ of Nagorno-Karabakh should have been invited by Chatham House to speak.

”His regime is unrecognized by any country in the world and continues to defy four UN Security Council Resolutions asking that Armenia end its occupation of Azerbaijani territories. He is not welcome in the UK and I would ask that Chatham House reconsiders his invitation to speak there," he said.

The United Kingdom’s Royal Institute of International Affairs Chatham House has rejected the recognition of the separatist regime in Azerbaijan’s occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region.

The Azerbaijani embassy earlier had sent a letter of protest to Chatham House over the planned speech of Bako Saakyan, the head of the separatist regime in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Responding to Azerbaijan’s embassy to the United Kingdom, the think tank has said the participation of the head of the separatist regime at a Chatham House event by no means implies the recognition of this regime.

In a letter to the embassy the Institute has mentioned that this meeting does not mean approval or recognition of separatist Nagorno-Karabakh.

A fragile ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing efforts by U.S., Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.

Armenia has not yet implemented any of the four U.N. Security Council resolutions urging a pullout from its neighboring country's territories.

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