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PACE REPORT ON "ENFORCED POPULATION TRANSFER AS A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION" CAUSES PROTEST BY AZERBAIJANI DELEGATION
APA
Jan 27 2012
Azerbaijan
Strasbourg. Fuad Gulubeyli - APA. A report named "Enforced population
transfer as a human rights violation" was heard at the last plenary
meeting of PACE's winter session today.
APA's European bureau reports that information about Azerbaijani
refugees and displaced persons was not reflected in the report which
presented by Lithuanian deputy Egidijus Vareikis, the chairman of the
PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights and the situation
in the South Caucasus around this problem was described with common
expressions. The member of Azerbaijani delegation Ganira Pashayeva
expressed protest to this issue. Azerbaijani MP said that enforced
population transfer from their lands and homes was a serious issue:
"We also support the idea that the Council of Europe must seriously
support the settlement of this problem. But the speaker points out in
the report that there were the cases of enforced population transfer
during the developments in the Caucasus. It is needed to describe
this issue concretely and clearly in the report. This report should
be pointed out that about 250 thousand Azerbaijanis were forcibly
resettle from their lands and homes as a result of ethnic cleansing by
Armenia in 1988. We want this fact to be reflected in the document. In
addition, thousands of Azerbaijanis turned into refugees and internally
displaced persons as a result of Armenian occupation of Azerbaijani
lands. These facts should be seriously reflected in the report. I
have already noted that the rights of all people should be protected
individually. But here we are talking about hundreds of thousands of
people. It is necessary to reflect the issues of these people clearly
in the report".
From: A. Papazian
APA
Jan 27 2012
Azerbaijan
Strasbourg. Fuad Gulubeyli - APA. A report named "Enforced population
transfer as a human rights violation" was heard at the last plenary
meeting of PACE's winter session today.
APA's European bureau reports that information about Azerbaijani
refugees and displaced persons was not reflected in the report which
presented by Lithuanian deputy Egidijus Vareikis, the chairman of the
PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights and the situation
in the South Caucasus around this problem was described with common
expressions. The member of Azerbaijani delegation Ganira Pashayeva
expressed protest to this issue. Azerbaijani MP said that enforced
population transfer from their lands and homes was a serious issue:
"We also support the idea that the Council of Europe must seriously
support the settlement of this problem. But the speaker points out in
the report that there were the cases of enforced population transfer
during the developments in the Caucasus. It is needed to describe
this issue concretely and clearly in the report. This report should
be pointed out that about 250 thousand Azerbaijanis were forcibly
resettle from their lands and homes as a result of ethnic cleansing by
Armenia in 1988. We want this fact to be reflected in the document. In
addition, thousands of Azerbaijanis turned into refugees and internally
displaced persons as a result of Armenian occupation of Azerbaijani
lands. These facts should be seriously reflected in the report. I
have already noted that the rights of all people should be protected
individually. But here we are talking about hundreds of thousands of
people. It is necessary to reflect the issues of these people clearly
in the report".
From: A. Papazian