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    ArmenPress
    Oct 21 2004

    BRITISH PARLIAMENTARIANS MEET WITH KARABAGH LEADER

    STEPANAKERT, OCTOBER 21, ARMENPRESS: Nagorno Karabagh leader
    Arkady Ghukasian thanked October 20 a British parliamentary
    delegation for visiting Karabagh, saying it was another good
    opportunity for Karabagh people to make their voice heard in Europe.
    The delegation is led by Gordon Marsden, a member of the British
    House of Commons and Baroness Caroline Cox, who is deputy speaker of
    the House of Lords.
    Ghukasian's press office said he briefed the delegation members on
    Karabagh's recent achievements in such areas as human rights
    protection and building a democratic state based on rule of law. He
    also spoke about good conditions for operation of non-governmental
    organizations.
    Ghukasian then spoke about the conflict regulation process saying
    Karabagh leadership deems the maintenance of the ceasefire as a key
    point for its population's security.
    Gordon Masden was quoted by Ghukasian's press office as saying
    that the visit allowed them to get first-hand and detailed
    information about Karabagh and its people. He said the aim of the
    visit was to decide the volume of humanitarian assistance.
    Meanwhile Azerbaijan's foreign affairs ministry sent a letter of
    protest to British government protesting the visit and describing it
    as "violation of Azerbaijan's rights."
    Also a report from Baku said unidentified people wrote the name of
    Deputy Speaker of the British House of Lords, Baroness Caroline Cox,
    on the memorial to British soldiers killed in Baku in 1918 using
    black paint. Police arrived at the scene and removed paint off the
    memorial.
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