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Azerbaijani and Armenian PACE delegations to meet in April

30 January 2013 14:52 (UTC+04:00)
Azerbaijani and Armenian PACE delegations to meet in April

By Nigar Orujova

The Azerbaijani and Armenian delegations to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe are due to meet during the spring session of the organization in Strasbourg in April, a member of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE told Trend news agency.

Sevinj Fataliyeva, deputy chairperson of the parliamentary committee on foreign and inter-parliamentary relations, said the discussions will take place during a meeting of the PACE subcommittee on Nagorno-Karabakh. Fataliyeva expressed hope that Armenia would take a constructive position at the meeting.

The PACE session will take place in Strasbourg on April 20-22, she said.

PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon met with heads of the Azerbaijani and Armenian delegations within the winter session in Strasburg January 21-25.

The importance of holding talks on a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was stressed at the meeting.

However, no statements were made regarding details of the meeting, which has become a consistency, as no details about trilateral meetings initiated regularly by PACE are provided.

Meanwhile, an Armenian MP admitted during the PACE winter session that his country occupied a part of Azerbaijan's territory, according to Azerbaijani MP Ali Huseynli.

Huseynli said the Armenian MP interrupted PACE Monitoring Committee co-rapporteur Pedro Agramunt's speech claiming that not 20 percent, but 14 percent of Azerbaijani territory was invaded by Armenia.

Agramunt in turn stressed that this is an official confession and in fact, Armenia occupied Azerbaijan`s territories.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict emerged in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. The two South Caucasus neighbors fought a lengthy war that ended with the signing of a precarious cease-fire in 1994. Armenian armed forces have since occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory. Peace talks brokered by US, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on a pullout from Nagorno-Karabakh and the seven surrounding regions.

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