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    AZERBAIJANI COMMUNITY IN LITHUANIA OPPOSES 'FRIENDSHIP GROUP WITH NAGORNO-KARABAKH'

    AzerNews, Azerbaijan
    July 31 2013

    31 July 2013, 17:36 (GMT+05:00)
    By Sara Rajabova

    Azerbaijani diaspora in Lithuania is working hard to achieve
    invalidation of the "Friendship Group with Nagorno-Karabakh" in the
    Lithuanian Seim (parliament), chairman of Azerbaijan's State Committee
    for Work with Diaspora Nazim Ibrahimov said on his Facebook page on
    July 30.

    According to Ibrahimov, in March 2013 12 deputies of the Lithuanian
    Seim set up a "friendship group with Nagorno-Karabakh." Immediately
    thereafter, chairman of the Society of Lithuanian Azerbaijanis
    Mahir Gamzaev and president of the Lithuania-Azerbaijan Association
    Imantas Melyanas sent a joint request on behalf of the Azerbaijani
    organizations of Lithuania to the Seim leadership. The request
    stated that in the bylaws regulating the activities of the Seim,
    there is no clause on the "Friendship Group". The authors of the
    request demanded explaining under what law the group is operating
    and what is its status.

    "The leaders of Azerbaijani organizations have made suggestions
    relating to...the elimination of such groups that do not meet the
    requirements of the Seim Charter," says a letter of the chairman of
    the steering board of the Chamber of Information of the Lithuanian
    Peoples, co-founder of the Lithuania-Azerbaijan Association, Vitaliyus
    Karakorskis, sent to the Azerbaijani State Committee for Work with
    Diaspora.

    Karakorskis also noted in the letter that the chairman of the
    Lithuanian parliament Vidas Gedvilas instructed the committee on
    foreign affairs and the committee on law and legal norms of the
    Lithuanian parliament to study the issue in order to respond to this
    request and examine the proposed measures.

    A few days ago the Society of Lithuanian Azerbaijanis and the
    Lithuania-Azerbaijan Association received a response from the Seim
    committees to the request they sent in June this year.

    The letter, signed by the chairman of the foreign affairs committee
    of the Lithuanian parliament, representative of the ruling Social
    Democratic Party of Lithuania, Benediktas Juodka, said that this
    committee doesn't recognize the given "friendship group with the
    parliament of the so-called Nagorno-Karabakh" as a working group
    on inter-parliamentary relations, because such working groups can
    be established only with the parliaments of states that have been
    recognized de jure.

    "The legal basis for the establishment of a friendship group with
    the 'parliament of Nagorno-Karabakh' does not meet the requirements
    cited in the Charter of the Lithuanian Seim. According to these
    requirements, 'a working group on inter-parliamentary relations'
    can only be created with the parliaments of those countries that are
    legally recognized by the state. Therefore, the organization is not
    recognized as a 'group on inter-parliamentary relations' and in no
    way reflects the official view of the Lithuanian state. With regard
    to the measures proposed by the Society of Lithuanian Azerbaijanis
    and the Lithuania-Azerbaijan Association on optimization of rules of
    establishing inter-parliamentary working groups, they will be taken
    into account when proposals are made for the improvement of the Seim
    Charter," says the official response of the chairman of the committee
    on law of the Seim Julius Sabatauskas to the request of the Azerbaijani
    organizations in Lithuania.

    According to Vitaliyus Karakorskis, the decision of the Seim committees
    shows that the attempts of the Armenian reactionary forces to create a
    "friendship group with the Parliament of Nagorno-Karabakh" have failed.

    Nazim Ibrahimov said on Facebook that it is for the first time that
    members of parliament admitted their mistake since the establishment
    of the parliament of independent Lithuania. According to Ibrahimov,
    the proposals made by the Azerbaijani organizations will soon be
    adopted by the Lithuanian Seim.

    "It also should be noted that these decisive measures on elimination
    of the 'friendship group with the parliament of Nagorno-Karabakh'
    were taken as a result of the lobbying activities of the Azerbaijani
    Diaspora in Lithuania and with the support of the initiative friends
    of Azerbaijan in Lithuania," Ibrahimov wrote.

    Nagorno-Karabakh is an Azerbaijani region occupied by Armenia along
    with seven adjacent regions since a war fought by the two South
    Caucasus republics in the early 1990s. Years of OSCE-brokered peace
    talks have been largely fruitless so far.

    http://www.azernews.az/azerbaijan/57552.html




    From: A. Papazian
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