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  • BAKU: Azerbaijan demands Armenia's exclusion from Council of Europe

    Azerbaijan demands Armenia's exclusion from Council of Europe

    Oct 5 2004

    BAKU. Oct 5 (Interfax) - Azerbaijan has sent a letter to the Council
    of Europe demanding that Armenia be expelled from this organization.

    "The document that contains the demand to exclude Armenia from the
    Council of Europe has already received the status of an official PACE
    document. It will be distributed among PACE countries' representatives
    on Tuesday and will be discussed at a session of the Council of Europe
    ministers' cabinet in the near future," a representatives of
    Azerbaijan's delegation at the Strasbourg PACE session, Rafael
    Guseinov, told Interfax.

    "This demand is motivated by the fact that Armenia has repeatedly
    violated the basic principles of the Council of Europe. Namely,
    Armenia continues the occupation of 20% of Azerbaijan's territory,
    Azerbaijan being another Council of Europe country," Guseinov said.

    Baku lost control over Nagorno-Karabakh in the course of a bloody
    conflict with Armenia in the 1990s.

    The UN Security Council has repeatedly condemned the occupation of
    Azerbaijani territory and demanded that Armenian military units be
    withdrawn from it. The OSCE Minsk Group, which includes
    representatives of Russia, France, and the United States, is mediating
    the conflict.
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