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    ARMENIAN DELEGATION TO PACE PRESENTS MATERIALS ON BAKU POGROMS TO ALL DELEGATES OF ASSEMBLY

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    01.02.2010 17:52 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ A report on refugees was made at the PACE
    meeting, which was followed by a "special" opinion of a delegate
    from Azerbaijan, who distorted facts, Naira Zohrabyan , member of
    the Armenian delegation to PACE told reporters. According to her,
    in response to the opinion voiced by the Azerbaijani delegation
    that Baku allegedly has a million refugees, the Armenian delegation
    insisted, it is not true, besides the majority of refugees from
    Yerevan received appropriate compensation in contrary to Armenian
    refugees. Armenian delegation to PACE presented materials on Baku
    pogroms to all delegates of the Assembly. "Usual Genocide: Baku,
    January 1990" and "Vandals of the 21st century" films were among
    the materials submitted. "I personally handed the materials to the
    Azerbaijani delegation," Zohrabyan said.

    The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which held
    its first session in Strasbourg on 10 August 1949, can be considered
    the oldest international parliamentary assembly with a pluralistic
    composition of democratically elected members of parliament established
    on the basis of an intergovernmental treaty. The Assembly is one of
    the two statutory organs of the Council of Europe, which is composed of
    the Committee of Ministers (the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, meeting
    usually at the level of their deputies) and the Assembly representing
    the political forces (majority and opposition) in its member states.

    In January 1990, Azerbaijani authorities instigated the Armenian
    pogroms in Baku. Some 400 Armenians were killed and 200 thousand
    were exiled in the period of January 13-19. The exact number of those
    killed was never determined, as no investigation was carried out into
    the crimes.

    On January 13, a crowd numbering 50 thousand people divided into
    groups and started "cleaning" the city of Armenians. On January 17,
    the European Parliament called on EU Council of Foreign Ministers
    and European Council to protect Armenians and render assistance to
    Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. On January 18, a group of U.S. Senators
    sent a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev to express concerns over the
    violence against the Armenian population in Azerbaijan and called
    for unification of Nagorno Karabakh with Armenia.
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