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July 23 2010
Armenian refugees can return to Azerbaijan once conflict is settled
Fri 23 July 2010 | 05:27 GMT Text size:
Elkhan Polukhov The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has said that
Armenian refugees can return to Azerbaijan once the Karabakh conflict
has been settled.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Elkhan Polukhov was commenting on remarks
made earlier on Thursday by the head of Armenia's State Migration
Service that Armenian refugees would like to return to Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan has never been against their return, Polukhov said.
"But first the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has to be settled and this
could begin with the withdrawal of Armenian troops from the occupied
Azerbaijani territories. Then all the people internally displaced in
Azerbaijan should return to their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh and the
seven neighbouring districts," Polukhov said.
"After all this, the Azerbaijani and Armenian communities of
Nagorno-Karabakh will work out a status for Nagorno-Karabakh as part
of Azerbaijan. And the following stage will be consideration of the
options for the return to Azerbaijan of Armenians who left the country
during the Karabakh war."
Gagik Yeganyan, head of the Armenian Migration Service, told a press
conference in Yerevan yesterday that Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan
had approached the service over the point in the Muskoka statement by
the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries about the right of all
refugees and internally displaced persons to return to their previous
places of residence.
He said that many refugees were approaching the Migration Service and
other government agencies to find out when this would happen.
1news.az, Regnum
From: A. Papazian
July 23 2010
Armenian refugees can return to Azerbaijan once conflict is settled
Fri 23 July 2010 | 05:27 GMT Text size:
Elkhan Polukhov The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has said that
Armenian refugees can return to Azerbaijan once the Karabakh conflict
has been settled.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Elkhan Polukhov was commenting on remarks
made earlier on Thursday by the head of Armenia's State Migration
Service that Armenian refugees would like to return to Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan has never been against their return, Polukhov said.
"But first the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has to be settled and this
could begin with the withdrawal of Armenian troops from the occupied
Azerbaijani territories. Then all the people internally displaced in
Azerbaijan should return to their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh and the
seven neighbouring districts," Polukhov said.
"After all this, the Azerbaijani and Armenian communities of
Nagorno-Karabakh will work out a status for Nagorno-Karabakh as part
of Azerbaijan. And the following stage will be consideration of the
options for the return to Azerbaijan of Armenians who left the country
during the Karabakh war."
Gagik Yeganyan, head of the Armenian Migration Service, told a press
conference in Yerevan yesterday that Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan
had approached the service over the point in the Muskoka statement by
the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries about the right of all
refugees and internally displaced persons to return to their previous
places of residence.
He said that many refugees were approaching the Migration Service and
other government agencies to find out when this would happen.
1news.az, Regnum
From: A. Papazian