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  • BAKU: Estonian MP Vows Karabakh Issue to be Put on EU Agenda

    ESTONIAN MP VOWS KARABAKH ISSUE TO BE PUT ON EU AGENDA - AZERI TV

    ANS TV, Baku
    1 Nov 04

    (Presenter) A delegation led by the chairman of the foreign relations
    committee of the Estonian parliament, Marko Mihkelson, is in Baku. The
    chairman of the Milli Maclis (Azerbaijani parliament), Murtuz
    Alasgarov, received him today. The main topics of discussion were
    bilateral relations, as well as the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. The
    Estonian MP made a promise at the end: to put the Karabakh problem on
    the agenda of the European Union.

    (Correspondent, over video of the meeting) At a meeting with the
    chairman of the foreign relations committee of the Estonian parliament
    and the head of the (Estonian) parliament's delegation to the
    Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PA CE), Marko
    Mihkelson, the chairman of the Milli Maclis, Murtuz Alasgarov, said
    that more than a fifth of Azerbaijan's territories has been occupied,
    over a million people are living as refugees and displaced persons and
    those driven out of their land have now been living in more than 60
    districts. The parliament speaker also told the visitors that the
    aggressor state of Armenia had been defying the resolutions issued by
    the UN and other international organizations.

    (Murtuz Alasgarov, captioned, shown speaking at the meeting) The
    Council of Europe has adopted a document saying that Armenia is an
    aggressor state, and a report on the Karabakh issue will be heard by
    the Council of Europe late November this year. I would like to tell
    you that Armenia brings its radioactive waste from the Metsamor
    nuclear power station into Azerbaijan and buries it in Nagornyy
    Karabakh.

    (Correspondent) Murtuz Alasgarov said that there should be no
    concessions to terrorism and separatism and the culprits should be
    punished and stressed that Azerbaijan does not intend to yield even an
    inch of its land to anybody. The chairman of the foreign relations
    committee of the Estonian parliament and the head of the parliament's
    delegation to the PA CE, Marko Mihkelson, said that his country was in
    favour of a fair solution to the conflict and would continue
    supporting Azerbaijan's position.

    (Mihkelson, speaking in English with Azeri voice-over) We have also
    visited Armenia and Georgia. Now, we are in Azerbaijan. The purpose of
    our visit is to study the South Caucasus region. We will try to assist
    in the resolution of the conflict as a NATO member state.

    (Correspondent, over video of Mihkelson speaking, meeting) Marko
    Mihkelson said the European Union is interested in the establishment
    of stability in the South Caucasus, because without that there can be
    no talk about reforms. Marko Mihkelson thinks that the only way of
    resolving frozen conflicts is through negotiations. He also stressed
    that the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict would be included in the agenda of
    the European Union.

    Afat Telmanqizi, Azar Qarayev for ANS.
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