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    Baku Today

    Azeri Foreign Ministry Protests U.S. Congress

    Baku Today 02/07/2004 16:50

    Azerbaijan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday protested a decision by
    the foreign aid subcommittee of the U.S. Congress to provide $5 million of
    aid to Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan's mainly ethnic-Armenian populated
    region that has been under the Armenian occupation since early 1990s.

    A statement by the foreign ministry expressed concern that the allotted
    money would be used in maintaining of `aggressive separatism, extremism and
    promotion of illegal activities' in Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan's other
    territories occupied by Armenia.

    `This decision by the Congress can effect the settlement process of the
    conflict negatively,' the statement read, adding that the funds could also
    be funneled to a resettlement of Armenians in Azerbaijan's occupied
    territories.

    The statement urged the U.S. government to make sure that the aid is used
    for humanitarian ends and within international principles and norms.

    Azerbaijan and Armenia are at odds over Nagorno-Karabakh, over which Baku
    has lost control after 1991-94 war.

    Armenian troops have also captured seven administrative districts of
    Azerbaijan - Lachin, Kelbecer, Aghdam, Fizuli, Jebrail, Zengilan and Qubadli
    - forcing over 700 civilians to leave their homes.

    A cease-fire agreement reached between Armenia and Azerbaijan in 1994 is
    frequently violated by exchange of fires while peace negotiations mediated
    by OSCE's Minsk group since 1992 have yielded no result.
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