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    AZERBAIJANI MPS WANT PARLIAMENT TO HOLD HEARINGS ON SETTLEMENT OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT

    Trend News Agency
    Dec 2 2008
    Azerbaijan

    Azerbaijan, Baku, 2 December/ Trend News corr I. Alizade/ Azerbaijani
    MPs want the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to be
    discussed in the parliament.

    "MPs do not know anything about in what stage are the talks on the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Therefore I propose and at the same time
    demand to discuss the situation around the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
    to be discussed in the parliament," MP Igbal Agazade, chief the
    opposition Umid Party, said in the parliamentary meeting on 2 December.

    Presidents of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia Ilham Aliyev, Serzh
    Sarkisyan and Dmitry Medvedev signed a declaration at the end of their
    meeting in Mein Dorf castle near Moscow on 2 November. Presidents
    of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan decided to make joint efforts to
    normalize the situation in Caucasus and requested Foreign Ministers
    to make efforts to solve Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

    The declaration calls for the solution of the conflict in line with
    international legal principles. Turkey is actively involved in the
    settlement of the conflict.

    Agazade said the MPs must be informed of the course of talks, delay
    in the settlement of the conflict and reason for absence of a progress.

    He said Azerbaijani parliament last time discussed the Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict in 2001.

    "MPs can not get any information about the course of talks. All issues
    are solved by the executive bodies as result putting a significant
    body as parliament aside. Therefore this issue should be discussed
    in the parliament by the end of the year," Agazade noted.

    Armenia often discusses the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the
    parliament, hold hearings and informs the public about the course of
    talks, he added.

    Gudrat Hasanguliyev, MP and chief of opposition United Popular
    Front Party of Azerbaijan, backed the proposal to discuss the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the parliament. He said the public should
    be informed about the talks.

    Member of the opposition MP Group Panah Husein also supported the
    proposal.

    MP Siyavush Novruzov, deputy executive director of the governing New
    Azerbaijan Party, said position of the Azerbaijani President Ilham
    Aliyev towards the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is clear.

    "The public has been informed about the last talks on the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Turkey's involvement in the settlement
    of the conflict and Moscow talks. However it is not expedient to
    reveal details at this stage. The details can be revealed after
    certain result is achieved. Therefore there is no need to discuss
    the conflict in the parliament," he added.

    The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began in
    1988 due to Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan
    lost the Nagorno-Karabakh, except of Shusha and Khojali, in December
    1991. In 1992-93, Armenian Armed Forces occupied Shusha, Khojali and
    Nagorno-Karabakh's seven surrounding regions. In 1994, Azerbaijan
    and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which time the active
    hostilities ended. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Russia,
    France, and the US) are currently holding peaceful, but fruitless
    negotiations.
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