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    AZERI PRESSURE GROUP CALLS FOR DEPORTING ARMENIAN EX-MINISTER

    APA
    Nov 22 2012
    Azerbaijan

    [Translated from Azeri]

    An Azerbaijani pressure group has called for immediate deportation
    of Armenian ex-foreign minister Raffi Hovhannisyan, leader of the
    Heritage party, over the remarks he made at a Baku forum concerning
    the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict.

    The Karabakh Liberation Organization has described the visit of the
    Armenian politician to Baku to participate in an Asian international
    conference as "unacceptable", the APA news agency reported on 22
    November.

    "Immediately upon his arrival to Baku, Raffi Hovhannisyan has
    not refrained from expressing his position and making shameless
    assertions. He said he regarded Sumqayit as an Armenian city and
    rejected the fact of the occupation of Nagornyy Karabakh. On our part
    we will use any means for the immediate deportation of the shameless
    representative of aggressor Armenia from the country," the news agency
    quoted the organization's statement as saying.

    Meanwhile, Ali Ahmadov, deputy chairman and executive secretary of
    the ruling New Azerbaijan Party, has said that Hovhannisyan's remarks
    are out of touch with the standpoint of the international community.

    "Regardless of what the former Armenian foreign minister says, the
    UN, major European bodies, the international community, including the
    OSCE, which is tackling settlement of the conflict, and its co-chairs
    have repeatedly voiced the fact that Azerbaijani lands have been
    occupied. In addition, they have explicitly said that they recognize
    Azerbaijan's territorial integrity. I believe all of this confirms
    that the imprudent statement made by the former Armenian foreign
    minister is completely groundless," APA quoted Ahmadov as saying.

    Turan news agency quoted Hovhannisyan's remarks at a press conference
    in Baku. Hovhannisyan said that using terms like "occupation" is
    ill-advised. "To follow this logic, a large part of Armenian lands
    is also under the occupation of Turkey and Azerbaijan," he said. He
    said that "Azerbaijan's aggression against residents of Karabakh"
    was the cause of the conflict.

    "I realize the problems of 700,000 Azerbaijani refugees and the rights
    of 400,000 Armenian refugees evicted from Baku and Sumqayit. They all
    have the right to return to their lands, including Azerbaijanis to
    independent Nagornyy Karabakh and Armenians to Turkey," the agency
    quoted him as saying.

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