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Baku blames int’l bodies for double standards

23 October 2014 17:32 (UTC+04:00)
Baku blames int’l bodies for double standards

By Sara Rajabova

Azerbaijan's high-ranking official blamed the international organizations for double standards over the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which erupted in 1988 over Armenia's territorial claims against Azerbaijan.

Ali Hasanov, the deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the State Committee for Refugees and IDPs met with Renate Held, the Regional Director for Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and Central Asia of the International Organization for Migration, on October 22.

Hasanov informed the IOM officials about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the conditions of 1.2 million refugees and internally displaced persons.

He said ignorance of the resolutions adopted by international organizations on the conflict, as well as the double standards towards the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict once again prove that all these facts are anti-democratic.

The bloody war, which flared up in the late 1980s due to Armenia's territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor, left without home over a million of civilians of Nagorno-Karabakh and the regions adjoining it, as well as the regions bordering with Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

They are temporarily settled in more than 1,600 settlements across 62 cities and regions of Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijanis who were displaced from their homes as result of the brutal war were forced to live in refugee camps, tents and wagons in very difficult conditions.

Moreover, thousands of Azerbaijanis have been expelled from Armenia and become refugees due to Armenia's ethnic cleansing policy after the emergence of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan. As a result of the military aggression of Armenia, over 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed, 4,866 are reported missing and almost 100,000 were injured, and 50,000 were disabled.

Held, for her part, noted that despite the occupation of more than 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory and displacement of more than 1 million refugees and IDPs, the country has made considerable progress. She added that the IOM attaches great importance to cooperation with the Azerbaijani government.

Hasanov further said the Azerbaijani government also attaches great importance to cooperation with the IOM, noting that the organization's experience was used during the development of an appropriate legislative framework for migration.

He said the projects implemented by the IOM in Azerbaijan are of a high priority, adding that the implementation of large-scale international projects in the country, creating new jobs, improving the living conditions of refugees and internally displaced persons and other works attract the migrants. Hasanov said in this regard their number is growing, and there is a need to continue the projects with IOM in the priority areas.

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