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    Separatist official says Armenians settled in Karabakh Azeri citizens

    ANS TV, Baku
    1 Feb 05

    [Presenter] The head of the information department of the separatist
    Nagornyy Karabakh regime, Aleksandr Grigoryan, has made an unexpected
    statement while the OSCE mission is looking into whether Armenians are
    being re-settled in Azerbaijan's occupied territories. The
    representative of the separatist regime described a large group of
    Armenians living in these areas as Azerbaijani citizens and Karabakh
    as a subject of talks. To recap, Xankandi [Stepanakert] has been
    talking so far only about districts around Nagornyy Karabakh.

    [Correspondent, over video of destroyed buildings in Karabakh] The
    visit to the region by the OSCE fact-finding mission to look into the
    illegal settlement of Armenians in Azerbaijan's occupied territories
    continues. The mission visited Kalbacar District yesterday [31
    January] and Cabrayil District today [1 February], the head of the
    information department of the separatist Nagornyy Karabakh regime,
    Aleksandr Grigoryan, told ANS. The mission is still keeping under
    wraps the information it obtained.

    [Grigoryan, by phone in Russian with Azeri voice-over] The monitoring
    group has not yet made any statements. It said that it was mainly
    there to observe and listen. We hope it will give a news conference
    after the monitoring.

    [Correspondent] Grigoryan also said that the separatist regime had no
    programme of Armenian settlement in the occupied territories. Then we
    recalled that the chief of the department for refugees, migration and
    re-settlement of the self-proclaimed regime, Serzh Amirkhanyan, had
    spoken about the existence of such a programme. After this, Grigoryan
    stepped back.

    [Grigoryan, by phone] Are you saying that conditions should not be
    created for people to live in Stepanakert, Askaran or some other
    districts of Nagornyy Karabakh? This kind of approach is wrong. The
    territories are the subject of talks. Armenians mainly from Baku,
    Sumqayit and Kirovabad [old name of Ganca] are being settled in houses
    here. They are Azerbaijani citizens as well, but of Armenian origin.

    [Passage omitted: details of the fact-finding mission head's interview
    with the Armenian media]

    [Correspondent] Azada Balayeva, ANS.
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