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INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS CALL UPON SETTLEMENT OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT ON BEHALF OF AZERBAIJANI REFUGEES
Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
June 19 2007
Azerbaijan, Baku / Òrend corr S. Ilhamgizi /On the occasion of
International Refugees Day the Public Union on the Protection of
Rights of Azerbaijani Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons has
applied to the UN, the CE Parliamentary Assembly, the Chairman of
the OSCE and the Presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group's co-chairman
countries. Notably, 20 June was announced International Refugees
Day on the basis of a special resolution of the UN General Assembly,
approved on 4 December, 2000.
The appeal reflects the occupation of Azerbaijani territories by
Armenia, as well as Armenia's groundless territorial claims on
Azerbaijan. It is indicated that 750,000 people were displaced from
the Nagorno-Karabakh and the nearby regions of Aghdam, Jabrayil,
Fizuli, Kalbajar, Lachin, Zangilan, Gubadly, as well as bordering
Armenian regions of Tovuz, Gazakh, Agstafa and Gadabey.
The appeal says tens of thousands of refugees from Chechnya,
Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Pakistan settled in Azerbaijan. A request
for international organizations to make clear their steps in the
settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and the return of
refugees and displaced persons to their homelands was indicated in
the appeal.
--Boundary_(ID_U7CVaHV0uIQAd1UPNCdGkA)--
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
June 19 2007
Azerbaijan, Baku / Òrend corr S. Ilhamgizi /On the occasion of
International Refugees Day the Public Union on the Protection of
Rights of Azerbaijani Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons has
applied to the UN, the CE Parliamentary Assembly, the Chairman of
the OSCE and the Presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group's co-chairman
countries. Notably, 20 June was announced International Refugees
Day on the basis of a special resolution of the UN General Assembly,
approved on 4 December, 2000.
The appeal reflects the occupation of Azerbaijani territories by
Armenia, as well as Armenia's groundless territorial claims on
Azerbaijan. It is indicated that 750,000 people were displaced from
the Nagorno-Karabakh and the nearby regions of Aghdam, Jabrayil,
Fizuli, Kalbajar, Lachin, Zangilan, Gubadly, as well as bordering
Armenian regions of Tovuz, Gazakh, Agstafa and Gadabey.
The appeal says tens of thousands of refugees from Chechnya,
Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Pakistan settled in Azerbaijan. A request
for international organizations to make clear their steps in the
settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and the return of
refugees and displaced persons to their homelands was indicated in
the appeal.
--Boundary_(ID_U7CVaHV0uIQAd1UPNCdGkA)--
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress