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    AZERBAIJAN AGAIN WARNS AGAINST ETHNIC ARMENIAN SYRIANS' SETTLEMENT IN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES

    AzerNews, Azerbaijan
    Oct 30 2013

    30 October 2013, 15:22 (GMT+04:00)
    By Sara Rajabova

    Baku is concerned over Armenia's actions on settling Syrian citizens
    of Armenian descent to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, the
    Azerbaijani embassy in Russia said.

    The embassy noted that Armenia continues its illegal actions,
    especially efforts aimed at protracting the military occupation and
    its consequences and artificially changing the demographic situation
    in Azerbaijan's occupied territories, thus ignoring the international
    community's position which condemns such activities.

    Recently about 200 Armenian refugees from Syria were settled in the
    occupied Zangilan region, which was "another clear evidence of the
    illegal settlement policy pursued by the Armenian state," a document
    received by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti said.

    The embassy said that thereupon Azerbaijan hopes that the international
    community will take a more resolute approach for a swift solution of
    this inveterate problem and to address the "attempts to consolidate the
    results of military occupation, including through the implementation
    of illegal migration".

    Head of the Azerbaijani mission to the United Nations Agshin Mehdiyev
    earlier expressed concern over the actions taken by Armenia with a view
    to settling Syrian refugees to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.

    He said that undoubtedly, attempts to address the needs of refugees
    from Syria at the expense of hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijani
    displaced persons cherishing the hope of returning to their homes are
    illegal and cannot be tolerated or accepted under any circumstances.

    According to the Armenian government, more than 7,000 Syrian Armenians
    have already expressed the desire to move to Armenia, Eastbook.eu
    portal reported in August.

    The Armenian government started constructing apartment buildings for
    Syrian refugees in May this year, the same source said.

    Azerbaijan has repeatedly expressed serious concern over the settlement
    of Syrian Armenians in its Nagorno-Karabakh region that has long been
    occupied by Armenian armed forces.

    Earlier, Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov said that Azerbaijan
    is not opposed to the placement of Syrian Armenians in other areas,
    but is absolutely against the accommodation of Armenian refugees from
    Syria in Nagorno-Karabakh.

    For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in
    conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its
    South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian
    armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory,
    including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. A fragile
    ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing efforts by
    US, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.

    Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
    resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.




    From: A. Papazian
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