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    MELKUMYAN: IN KARABAKH SETTLEMENT WE MUST RAISE ISSUE ON RETURN OF ARMENIAN REFUGEES TO AZERBAIJAN

    http://www.eng.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles /10784
    jul 30 2009, 23:00

    Grant Melkumyan, leader of the Communist Party of Nagorno-Karabakh,
    finds it illogical that in debates on Karabakh settlement they talk
    about Azerbaijani refugees, while there are more than half-million
    refugees-Armenians from Azerbaijan. In his opinion, it is also
    necessary to raise the issue about a similar return of Armenian
    refugees to Azerbaijan and Shaumyan and Martuni Districts of Karabakh.

    He states that equivalency should be observed in any debate. In his
    opinion, only after deciding on the status and a complex of social
    issues, it will be possible to prepare the parties' societies to
    mutual concessions in return of refugees, the "Caucasian Knot"
    correspondent reports.

    "This is a complex issue that can be settled only after the
    international recognition of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR),"
    said the leader of Karabakh communists. "Those people who recognize
    the republic's constitution can come back here. As to the issue
    of material and moral compensation to refugees, Azerbaijan, as the
    aggressor, shall bear responsibility for indemnifying all the refugees,
    irrespective of nationality."

    Grant Melkumyan has emphasized that Armenians had been deported from
    Soviet Azerbaijan by the efforts of Azerbaijan authorities. "It was
    a real ethnic cleansing. Azerbaijanis left their homes because of
    the war unleashed by Azerbaijan," he has added.
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