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CHAIRMAN OF AZERBAIJAN CEC SAYS ARMENIANS ORGANIZE ELECTION GAMES TO ATTACH A LEGAL SLANT OF OCCUPATION OF AZERBAIJANI LANDS
Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
April 4 2007
Azerbaijan, Baku/ Trend , corr S. Ilhamgizi/ Natig Mammadov, the
Chairman of the Azerbaijan Central Election Committee(CEC), has
made a statement that the initiative of Armenian separatists to hold
"presidential elections" on the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh belongs
to Azerbaijan is an arbitrariness of a gruop of some persons. He
noted that any attempts to hold any election campaigns were illegal as
any other actions taken by Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh,
by adding that they were senseless.
According to the Head of CEC, Armenians organizes such election games
to attach a legal slant of their occupying the Azerbaijani lands.
"Each elections should reflect the will of the people, the majority,
and be certainly based upon the international law. Azerbaijanis,
who are local population of the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region,
were expelled from there because of their national identity. It means
that the Azerbaijani population of Nagorno-Karabakh will not take
part in the forthcoming "elections", and their will will certainly
not be considered. On other hand, none of the arrangements, which
have been held in Nagorno-Karabakh up to now, have been based upon
either the Azerbaijani legislation or the international law," stated
the Chairman of the Central Election Committee.
Mr. Mammadov also noted that there had not been formed the insitute
of presidency in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. Only
those elections campaigns are held on the territory of the country,
which are appointed by the state and official bodies.
Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
April 4 2007
Azerbaijan, Baku/ Trend , corr S. Ilhamgizi/ Natig Mammadov, the
Chairman of the Azerbaijan Central Election Committee(CEC), has
made a statement that the initiative of Armenian separatists to hold
"presidential elections" on the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh belongs
to Azerbaijan is an arbitrariness of a gruop of some persons. He
noted that any attempts to hold any election campaigns were illegal as
any other actions taken by Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh,
by adding that they were senseless.
According to the Head of CEC, Armenians organizes such election games
to attach a legal slant of their occupying the Azerbaijani lands.
"Each elections should reflect the will of the people, the majority,
and be certainly based upon the international law. Azerbaijanis,
who are local population of the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region,
were expelled from there because of their national identity. It means
that the Azerbaijani population of Nagorno-Karabakh will not take
part in the forthcoming "elections", and their will will certainly
not be considered. On other hand, none of the arrangements, which
have been held in Nagorno-Karabakh up to now, have been based upon
either the Azerbaijani legislation or the international law," stated
the Chairman of the Central Election Committee.
Mr. Mammadov also noted that there had not been formed the insitute
of presidency in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. Only
those elections campaigns are held on the territory of the country,
which are appointed by the state and official bodies.