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  • BAKU: Azerbaijan Remains Neutral on Kosovo's Independence Issue

    Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
    Feb 16 2008


    Azerbaijan Remains Neutral on Kosovo's Independence Issue
    16.02.08 14:32

    Azerbaijan, Baku, 16 February / Trend News corr I. Alizade /
    Azerbaijan will remain neutral when the recognition of Kosovo's
    independence will be discussed at the winter session of the
    Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).


    `The delegation to represent Azerbaijan at the session will stick to
    the neutral position during the voting on the further status of
    Kosovo. This decision was taken after the consultations with the
    Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry,' a source at the International
    Relations Department at the Azerbaijani Parliament said to Trend on
    16 February.

    Since 1999, Kosovo region, which is formally a part of Serbia, has
    been controlled by the UN. Kosovo strives for independence, but
    Serbia offers only the status of autonomic region. The EU and USA are
    ready to recognize Kosovo's independence, while Russia supports the
    position of Belgrade.

    According to the Parliament, the MPs to representing Azerbaijan will
    not speak at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's session on the Kosovo
    conflict. Azerbaijani MPs will take the floor only in case of the
    members of the Armenian delegation to the OSCE PA attempt to find a
    connection between Kosovo and Nagorno-Karabakh.


    `However, there are reports that the Armenian MPs are not to
    participate in the OSCE PA session, because of the upcoming elections
    to take place in country,' the source said.


    The winter session of the OSCE PA will take place in Vienna on 21-22
    February. The agenda of the session will include Kosovo's further
    status and the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE).


    Azerbaijan will be represented at the session by a delegation headed
    by the Deputy Speaker Bahar Muradova. The delegation includes MPs
    Eldar Ibrahimov, Fatah Heydarov, Rabiyyat Aslanova, Azay Guliyev, and
    the deputy head of the Department for International Relations at the
    Parliament Ilgar Farzaliyev.


    The delegation will head for Vienna on 18 February.
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