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    PACE REPORT ON "ENFORCED POPULATION TRANSFER AS A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION" CAUSES PROTEST BY AZERBAIJANI DELEGATION

    APA
    Jan 27 2012
    Azerbaijan

    Strasbourg. Fuad Gulubeyli - APA. A report named "Enforced population
    transfer as a human rights violation" was heard at the last plenary
    meeting of PACE's winter session today.

    APA's European bureau reports that information about Azerbaijani
    refugees and displaced persons was not reflected in the report which
    presented by Lithuanian deputy Egidijus Vareikis, the chairman of the
    PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights and the situation
    in the South Caucasus around this problem was described with common
    expressions. The member of Azerbaijani delegation Ganira Pashayeva
    expressed protest to this issue. Azerbaijani MP said that enforced
    population transfer from their lands and homes was a serious issue:
    "We also support the idea that the Council of Europe must seriously
    support the settlement of this problem. But the speaker points out in
    the report that there were the cases of enforced population transfer
    during the developments in the Caucasus. It is needed to describe
    this issue concretely and clearly in the report. This report should
    be pointed out that about 250 thousand Azerbaijanis were forcibly
    resettle from their lands and homes as a result of ethnic cleansing by
    Armenia in 1988. We want this fact to be reflected in the document. In
    addition, thousands of Azerbaijanis turned into refugees and internally
    displaced persons as a result of Armenian occupation of Azerbaijani
    lands. These facts should be seriously reflected in the report. I
    have already noted that the rights of all people should be protected
    individually. But here we are talking about hundreds of thousands of
    people. It is necessary to reflect the issues of these people clearly
    in the report".




    From: A. Papazian
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