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    Who Semneby should meet

    02-03-2007 11:06:42 - KarabakhOpen

    After the visit of the EU's Special Representative for the South
    Caucasus Peter Semneby to Baku Nizami Bahmanov, who refers to himself
    as the leader of the Azerbaijani community of Karabakh, stated that
    the `Azerbaijani community' is ready to discuss in Shushi the Karabakh
    issue with the `Armenian community'. Recently the necessity of contact
    between Karabakh and Azerbaijan has been underlined more
    often. However, a few people make efforts to present it as the
    necessity for relations between the `Armenian' and the `Azerbaijani'
    communities. Meanwhile, in Karabakh they are for equal relations.

    `Nizami Bahmanov's statement can be considered as another awkward
    effort of the Azerbaijani government to present the problem of Nagorno
    Karabakh as a conflict between the Armenian and Azerbaijani
    communities. It means the only counterpart Mr. Bahmanov could talk to
    is the chair of the NKR Organization of Refugees from Azerbaijan
    Sanasar Saryan, which would help create confidence between hundreds of
    thousands of people who suffer from the unsettled conflict. However,
    even at this level the Azerbaijani side is politicizing the issue, and
    rejects dialogue with NKR. I think Nizami Bahmanov should stop
    carrying out the political orders of the Azerbaijani government and
    let the competent agencies in Baku, Yerevan and Stepanakert deal with
    the problem of Karabakh,' said the head of the political department of
    the NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs Irina Beglaryan in an interview
    with KarabakhOpen.com.

    `As far as I know, Nizami Bahmanov runs a business in Baku, he is the
    owner of the Shusha Hotel. It is strange that the EU's Special
    Representative meets with this person. Bahmanov cannot represent the
    Azerbaijanis of Karabakh and the persons who are forcibly kept in
    Azerbaijan, so I am not going to comment on his insinuation,' said the
    chair of the Committee of External Relations Vahram Atanesyan. `If the
    EU's special representative wants to show the importance of his
    statements made earlier, he should cooperate with the elective
    representatives of the people of NKR,' the member of parliament added.
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