Tweet
THE BELGIUM PARLIAMENT HOLDS HEARING ON THE KARABAKH CONFLICT
APA
March 6 2012
Azerbaijan
Brussels. Victoria Dementieva - APA. The Federal Parliament of Belgium
held hearing on "occupied territory, forgotten territory - humanitarian
and legal aspects of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict", - APA reports.
At the meeting, organized by the head of a working group of
inter-parliamentary cooperation Azerbaijan-Belgium Elkhan Suleymanov,
was attended by Deputy head of the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan,
Chairman of the State Committee for Refugees and IDPs Ali Hasanov,
Deputy Minister for Economic Development Sevinc Hasanova, Doctor of
international law Fuad Suleymanov, doctor of historical sciences
Maharram Zulfugarli, Director of European Center for Security and
Strategic Studies Claude Moniquet, founder of the organization
"Borderless Lawyers" Pierre Legros.
The meeting was opened by the deputy of the Belgian parliament, the
head of a working group of inter-parliamentary co-Azerbaijan Belgium
Philippe Blanchard. Then there was a demonstration of reportage -
"Nagorno Karabakh: a visit to a refugee", prepared by journalists
Euronews TV channel in 2011.
Addressing the meeting, Ali Hasanov noted that as a result of
occupation 20% of Azerbaijani territories by Armenians, one million
Azerbaijanis became refugees and IDPs. During the fighting, killing
dozens of people, including women, children and the elderly. The
Karabakh conflict caused damage to the economy of Azerbaijan in the
60 billion U.S. dollars.
Hasanov said that the beginning of the conflict began in the late
80s of last century, during the collapse of the Soviet Union. 20th
February 1988 Regional Council of Deputies of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Autonomous Region (Nagorny Karabakh) had called for the release of
Nagorny Karabakh from the Azerbaijan SSR and the occurrence of the
Armenian SSR.
Then, through violence and terror of the Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia
were expelled Azerbaijani population of all the night of February
25 to 26 the Armenian armed forces committed genocide against the
Azerbaijanis and the Meskhetian Turks who lived in the town of Khojaly
in Karabakh.
Ali Hasanov informed the participants with the detailed work carried
out on socio-economic resettlement of refugees and internally displaced
persons, providing them with housing, with the destructive position
of Armenia on the settlement of the conflict, the illegal settlement
of occupied territories by persons of Armenian origin from other
countries, drug production in the occupied lands, and so etc.
Deputy Prime Minister said that these actions constitute a threat to
Yerevan is not only the security of Azerbaijan and the entire region
and the world community.
Director of the Center for Strategic Studies and Security in Europe,
Claude Moniquet said that Europe must become more involved in resolving
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. "We must make every effort to resolve
it", - said Moniquet, noting that in connection with the possible
application of political sanctions against Armenia.
The founder and head of the organization "Bourderless lawyers",
Pierre Legros said that to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must
first educate the international community on this issue and get their
attention. "And Europe could make contribution", he said.
Pierre Legros said that optimism does not apply to negotiations,
conducted on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict within the OSCE Minsk Group,
as the work of the OSCE Minsk Group for all the years of its existence
has not brought success.
He noted that in order to educate the public about international
conflict will be useful to send a mission of the organization
"Borderless lawyers" in Azerbaijan, so they can gather all the facts,
and returned to tell about them in Europe.
MP Gudrat Gasankuliev expressed the view that the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict is more dependent on Russia. Noted that "about this conflict
is often referred to as frozen, but it is not. Once a violation of
the fire at the contact line may result in a full-fledged war".
He noted the importance of awareness in Europe about this conflict.
Following the discussions, the Belgian member of parliament David
Geerts pointed out the need to intensify efforts to resolve the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, said the initiative to submit a resolution
on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the Belgian Parliament.
The discussions were attended by over 100 people, including experts,
members of the upper and lower houses of parliament of Belgium, the
delegation of the Azerbaijani-Belgian inter-parliamentary working
group, headed by Elkhan Suleymanov.
From: Baghdasarian
APA
March 6 2012
Azerbaijan
Brussels. Victoria Dementieva - APA. The Federal Parliament of Belgium
held hearing on "occupied territory, forgotten territory - humanitarian
and legal aspects of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict", - APA reports.
At the meeting, organized by the head of a working group of
inter-parliamentary cooperation Azerbaijan-Belgium Elkhan Suleymanov,
was attended by Deputy head of the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan,
Chairman of the State Committee for Refugees and IDPs Ali Hasanov,
Deputy Minister for Economic Development Sevinc Hasanova, Doctor of
international law Fuad Suleymanov, doctor of historical sciences
Maharram Zulfugarli, Director of European Center for Security and
Strategic Studies Claude Moniquet, founder of the organization
"Borderless Lawyers" Pierre Legros.
The meeting was opened by the deputy of the Belgian parliament, the
head of a working group of inter-parliamentary co-Azerbaijan Belgium
Philippe Blanchard. Then there was a demonstration of reportage -
"Nagorno Karabakh: a visit to a refugee", prepared by journalists
Euronews TV channel in 2011.
Addressing the meeting, Ali Hasanov noted that as a result of
occupation 20% of Azerbaijani territories by Armenians, one million
Azerbaijanis became refugees and IDPs. During the fighting, killing
dozens of people, including women, children and the elderly. The
Karabakh conflict caused damage to the economy of Azerbaijan in the
60 billion U.S. dollars.
Hasanov said that the beginning of the conflict began in the late
80s of last century, during the collapse of the Soviet Union. 20th
February 1988 Regional Council of Deputies of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Autonomous Region (Nagorny Karabakh) had called for the release of
Nagorny Karabakh from the Azerbaijan SSR and the occurrence of the
Armenian SSR.
Then, through violence and terror of the Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia
were expelled Azerbaijani population of all the night of February
25 to 26 the Armenian armed forces committed genocide against the
Azerbaijanis and the Meskhetian Turks who lived in the town of Khojaly
in Karabakh.
Ali Hasanov informed the participants with the detailed work carried
out on socio-economic resettlement of refugees and internally displaced
persons, providing them with housing, with the destructive position
of Armenia on the settlement of the conflict, the illegal settlement
of occupied territories by persons of Armenian origin from other
countries, drug production in the occupied lands, and so etc.
Deputy Prime Minister said that these actions constitute a threat to
Yerevan is not only the security of Azerbaijan and the entire region
and the world community.
Director of the Center for Strategic Studies and Security in Europe,
Claude Moniquet said that Europe must become more involved in resolving
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. "We must make every effort to resolve
it", - said Moniquet, noting that in connection with the possible
application of political sanctions against Armenia.
The founder and head of the organization "Bourderless lawyers",
Pierre Legros said that to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must
first educate the international community on this issue and get their
attention. "And Europe could make contribution", he said.
Pierre Legros said that optimism does not apply to negotiations,
conducted on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict within the OSCE Minsk Group,
as the work of the OSCE Minsk Group for all the years of its existence
has not brought success.
He noted that in order to educate the public about international
conflict will be useful to send a mission of the organization
"Borderless lawyers" in Azerbaijan, so they can gather all the facts,
and returned to tell about them in Europe.
MP Gudrat Gasankuliev expressed the view that the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict is more dependent on Russia. Noted that "about this conflict
is often referred to as frozen, but it is not. Once a violation of
the fire at the contact line may result in a full-fledged war".
He noted the importance of awareness in Europe about this conflict.
Following the discussions, the Belgian member of parliament David
Geerts pointed out the need to intensify efforts to resolve the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, said the initiative to submit a resolution
on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the Belgian Parliament.
The discussions were attended by over 100 people, including experts,
members of the upper and lower houses of parliament of Belgium, the
delegation of the Azerbaijani-Belgian inter-parliamentary working
group, headed by Elkhan Suleymanov.
From: Baghdasarian