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    OPINION OF AZERBAIJANI LAWYERS AND LAW-ENFORCEMENT BODIES
    ON POSSIBLE NATURALIZATION OF ARMENIANS - FORMER BAKU CITIZENS DIFFER


    YEREVAN, AUGUST 20. ARMINFO. Opinion of Azerbaijani lawyers and
    law-enforcement bodies on possible naturalization of Armenians -
    former Baku citizens differ. According to the Azerbaijani newspaper
    Exho, a group of Armenians from Baku residing abroad consider a
    possibility of applying to the Azerbaijani authorities for
    restoration of their Azerbaijani citizenship.

    The lawyer, specialist in international relations Erkin Kadirov, in
    this issue everything will depend on the "period and the conditions
    of their leaving the country." Besides, the lawyer says not less
    important factor will be how they managed to get citizenship of other
    state, in the given case, the Russian citizenship. At the same time,
    Kadirov says that the Law on AR Citizenship stipulates that every
    person applying for citizenship is to apply to the country's
    government with a relevant petition. On the whole, to get citizenship
    it is necessary that an applicant lives in Azerbaijan for some time,
    though the fact of the person's birth in Azerbaijan changes the
    situation. The position of the country's government will not be the
    last in this issue, Kadirov says, adding that the applications of
    former Baku citizens will not be consider in the general order. At
    the same time. He says that the legislation in Azerbaijan does not
    provide for any discrimination on the national principle. At the same
    time he says that if naturalized in Azerbaijan, the above people will
    lose their Russian citizenship automatically.

    In his turn, an MP, member of the native deputy group at PACE
    Gyultekin Hajiyev says that issue of citizenship can be considered
    subject to simultaneous consideration of the return of citizenship to
    the Azerbaijanis- residents of the Armenian SSR by the RA leadership.
    Leader of Azerbaijani Organization for Liberation of Karabakh Akif
    Nagi is sharper and urges for carefulness. He thinks the
    law-enforcement bodies of Azerbaijan must identify each Armenian from
    Baku that wants to return to Azerbaijan of get citizenship of
    Azerbaijan. "We must find out if they fought against us during
    Karabakh war."

    Meanwhile, human rights activist, Head of the Peace and Democracy
    Institute Leila Yunus thinks settlement of Karabakh conflict must
    suppose return of Azerbaijanis - citizens of Armenia and vice versa
    in the territories they left during the war.
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