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PACE URGES NOT TO DELAY NKR CONFLICT REGULATION

Politics

Today, the PACE will consider the obligations and commitments by Azerbaijan in Strasburg at 6:00 (Yerevan time). To remind, Azerbaijan became engaged in the CoE on January 25, 2001. Armenian became a CoE member on the same day. .

With regard to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict:

the Assembly refers to its Resolution 1416 (2005) whereby it held that considerable parts of the territory of Azerbaijan were still occupied by Armenian forces and regrets that, despite the continuation of high level dialogue between Azerbaijan and Armenia, this conflict, which is at the origin of more than four thousand missing persons and some 760 000 displaced persons from the Azerbaijani side, remains unresolved;

the Assembly recalls the concern it expressed in its Resolution 1416 (2005) that the military action, and the widespread ethnic hostilities, which preceded it, led to large-scale ethnic expulsion and the creation of mono-ethnic areas, which resemble the terrible concept of ethnic cleansing. It therefore urges the parties to enhance their efforts to build peace and harmony between the two communities of the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan;

reiterating that it is in the interest of both sides to end this conflict as soon as possible, ruling out the use of force, in line with their accession commitment, the Assembly urges them, despite domestic political agendas, to maintain the momentum developed in the negotiations at the end of last year and refrain from unjustified delays, prolongations or intentional setbacks from the achieved understandings;

the Assembly invites the Azerbaijani authorities to prepare the population to accept the measures currently being negotiated. In this context it welcomes and further encourages contacts which have recently been established between Azerbaijani and Armenian civil society groups;

the Assembly expects that the Ad Hoc Committee of the Bureau on the implementation of Resolution 1416 (2005) on the conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference will soon be able to visit the two countries, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region, to help foster a positive negotiating climate, while refraining from interfering in the negotiation process.