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AZERBAIJAN SLAMS ARMENIA'S PROPOSAL ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Oct 25 2013
25 October 2013, 13:42 (GMT+05:00)
By Sara Rajabova
An Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry official expressed concern over
Armenian Prime Minister's proposal to investigate allegations of drug
trafficking in the Nagorno-Karabakh territory, local media reported.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Elman Abdullayev said Azerbaijan has
repeatedly expressed its concern over drug transit through the occupied
territories to international organizations, including the UN.
At the meeting with Executive Director of the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Yuri Fedotov, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran
Sargsyan invited UNODC to conduct an investigation concerning the
allegations of drug trafficking in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Abdullayev said that by making a decision about the territory of
another country, Armenia has once again demonstrated its impudent
disrespect for international law.
He said that Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part
of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani officials and representatives in international
organizations have repeatedly made well-founded statements about the
use of the occupied territories in drug production.
The Azerbaijani Ministry of National Security earlier exposed 12
people involved in smuggling drugs from Iran, and impounded about
40.5 kilograms of narcotic substances from them. It was ascertained
that part of these drugs had been cultivated and harvested in the
Azerbaijani territories occupied by Armenian armed forces. These
drugs were then delivered to Iran and from there found their way
to Azerbaijan.
Given the urgency of the problem of controlling illicit trafficking,
intensive work is underway in Azerbaijan to establish a legal basis
for combating such crimes.
Azerbaijan has joined the 1961, 1971 and 1988 UN conventions on
narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and the fight against illegal
circulation of precursors, and has signed bilateral and multilateral
agreements and memoranda with a number of countries on fighting drugs.
Besides the three UN conventions, Azerbaijan is party to the Partial
Agreement, establishing the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe
on cooperation in combating drug abuse and drug trafficking.
Over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory,
including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions, has been
occupied by Armenian forces since the war between the two South
Caucasus countries in the early 1990s. The UN Security Council has
passed four resolutions calling for an Armenian pullout, but they
have not been enforced to date.
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Oct 25 2013
25 October 2013, 13:42 (GMT+05:00)
By Sara Rajabova
An Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry official expressed concern over
Armenian Prime Minister's proposal to investigate allegations of drug
trafficking in the Nagorno-Karabakh territory, local media reported.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Elman Abdullayev said Azerbaijan has
repeatedly expressed its concern over drug transit through the occupied
territories to international organizations, including the UN.
At the meeting with Executive Director of the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Yuri Fedotov, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran
Sargsyan invited UNODC to conduct an investigation concerning the
allegations of drug trafficking in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Abdullayev said that by making a decision about the territory of
another country, Armenia has once again demonstrated its impudent
disrespect for international law.
He said that Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part
of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani officials and representatives in international
organizations have repeatedly made well-founded statements about the
use of the occupied territories in drug production.
The Azerbaijani Ministry of National Security earlier exposed 12
people involved in smuggling drugs from Iran, and impounded about
40.5 kilograms of narcotic substances from them. It was ascertained
that part of these drugs had been cultivated and harvested in the
Azerbaijani territories occupied by Armenian armed forces. These
drugs were then delivered to Iran and from there found their way
to Azerbaijan.
Given the urgency of the problem of controlling illicit trafficking,
intensive work is underway in Azerbaijan to establish a legal basis
for combating such crimes.
Azerbaijan has joined the 1961, 1971 and 1988 UN conventions on
narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and the fight against illegal
circulation of precursors, and has signed bilateral and multilateral
agreements and memoranda with a number of countries on fighting drugs.
Besides the three UN conventions, Azerbaijan is party to the Partial
Agreement, establishing the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe
on cooperation in combating drug abuse and drug trafficking.
Over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory,
including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions, has been
occupied by Armenian forces since the war between the two South
Caucasus countries in the early 1990s. The UN Security Council has
passed four resolutions calling for an Armenian pullout, but they
have not been enforced to date.