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    EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT MEMBERS AWAITING AZERI PERMISSION TO VISIT NAKHICHEVAN

    Armenpress
    Apr 19 2006

    YEREVAN, APRIL 19, ARMENPRESS: Members of Armenia-EU Parliamentary
    Cooperation Commission who are mandated by the president of the
    European Parliament to travel to Azerbaijani enclave of Nakhichevan to
    investigate Armenian reports that an old Armenian cemetery there was
    destroyed said today in Yerevan they did not receive the permission
    of Azeri authorities. They said they would go to Nakhichevan as soon
    as the permission were given.

    The decision to dispatch a fact-finding mission to the enclave
    had been made by the European Parliament on April 6 and members
    of the Armenia-EU Commission were assigned to assume the mission
    after ending the Commission's eighth meeting in Yerevan today. The
    Commission's cochairman Marie-Ann Isler Begin, who is also cochairman
    of a similar EU-Azerbaijan Commission, said today after learning about
    the destruction of the cemetery the European Parliament asked UNESCO
    for information, but it had none.

    "Now we are working with Armenia, Azerbaijan and UNESCO to specify
    what happened in reality,' she said, adding also that judging by the
    evidence presented by the Armenian side the cemetery had been subject
    to previous acts of vandalism as well.

    The European Parliament adopted a resolution on February 16 condemning
    the act of vandalism in the cemetery and called on Azeri authorities
    ' to allow a European Parliament mission to trip to the region to
    investigate reports on destruction of old Armenian monuments in
    Azerbaijani territory."
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