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AZERBAIJAN'S DEBT TO ARMENIAN REFUGEES IS OVER $100 BILLION
NEWS.am
January 13, 2012 | 16:24
YEREVAN.- The case Minas Sargsyan v Azerbaijan considered by the
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) can serve as a precedent,
said Grigory Ayvazyan, head of the Assembly of Azerbaijani Armenians.
He considers that Azerbaijan risks going bankrupt as the total debt
to Armenian refugees is over $100 billion.
On January 9 ECHR declared admissible two lawsuits filed by refugees -
an Armenian and an Azerbaijani. The applicants are Elkhan Chiragov,
former resident of Lachin (territory of security zone around
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic) and former resident of Gulistan village
of Shahumyan region (presently occupied by Azerbaijan) Minas Sargsyan.
The complaints were selected from over 1,000 similar cases (about 600
filed by Azerbaijani refugees and about 500 from Armenian refugees)
last year to serve as a precedent. Both complaints say about loss of
property as a result of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Chiragov's complaint
also includes certain ethnic and religious provisions. The Court is
supposed to deliver its judgment on both cases at a later date.
Grigory Ayvazyan told journalists that the choice of two mentioned
cases is surprising. Chiragov's case has no relation to Armenia, as
the applicant addresses Nagorno-Karabakh, he added. He stressed that
almost every Armenian family of refugees left a house and property
in Azerbaijan.
NEWS.am
January 13, 2012 | 16:24
YEREVAN.- The case Minas Sargsyan v Azerbaijan considered by the
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) can serve as a precedent,
said Grigory Ayvazyan, head of the Assembly of Azerbaijani Armenians.
He considers that Azerbaijan risks going bankrupt as the total debt
to Armenian refugees is over $100 billion.
On January 9 ECHR declared admissible two lawsuits filed by refugees -
an Armenian and an Azerbaijani. The applicants are Elkhan Chiragov,
former resident of Lachin (territory of security zone around
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic) and former resident of Gulistan village
of Shahumyan region (presently occupied by Azerbaijan) Minas Sargsyan.
The complaints were selected from over 1,000 similar cases (about 600
filed by Azerbaijani refugees and about 500 from Armenian refugees)
last year to serve as a precedent. Both complaints say about loss of
property as a result of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Chiragov's complaint
also includes certain ethnic and religious provisions. The Court is
supposed to deliver its judgment on both cases at a later date.
Grigory Ayvazyan told journalists that the choice of two mentioned
cases is surprising. Chiragov's case has no relation to Armenia, as
the applicant addresses Nagorno-Karabakh, he added. He stressed that
almost every Armenian family of refugees left a house and property
in Azerbaijan.