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    Azeri official warns OSCE fact-finding mission against breaching agreements

    Azad Azarbaycan TV, Baku
    1 Feb 05

    [Presenter] The first complaints have surfaced in connection with the
    OSCE fact-finding mission's visit to the occupied districts outside
    Nagornyy Karabakh. A number of conditions put forward by Baku and
    accepted by the parties to the conflict to ensure the mission's
    objectivity are being violated. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has
    said that if this information is confirmed, the ministry will ask the
    experts for explanation.

    [Correspondent over archive footage] Despite statements by the
    Azerbaijani authorities and the OSCE [Minsk Group] co-chairmen, the
    OSCE fact-finding mission visiting the occupied territories is being
    accompanied by the Karabakh Armenians.

    According to a report posted on the web site of the Armenian newspaper
    Yerkir, the European experts are being accompanied by the deputy
    foreign minister of the self-styled Nagornyy Karabakh republic, Masis
    Mailyan.

    Meanwhile, Baku regards the Armenian report as provocation. Deputy
    Foreign Minister Araz Azimov has told "Son Xabar" that when the Minsk
    Group co-chairmen and members of the fact-finding mission were in
    Baku, this issue was broadly discussed. We told them that the
    Armenians would try to offer a number of pretexts to stop the experts
    going there, by saying that the areas are mined, that roads are
    impassable, that the weather is not favourable enough. However, the
    OSCE representatives said they would be accompanied by [special
    representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office] Andrzej Kasprzyk, and
    promised not to let this happen, end of quote.

    According to Araz Azimov, the Azerbaijani side tends to trust the
    sincerity of European experts. At the same time, the deputy minister
    said if these reports are confirmed, the Azerbaijani side might ask
    the fact-finding mission to provide an explanation of how this could
    have happened.

    [Passage to end omitted: known background details]
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