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Secretary General of Socialist International visits occupied Azerbaijani regions

09 July 2007 17:47 (UTC +04:00)

Secretary General of Socialist International Luis Ayala visited Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh after visiting Azerbaijan, APA reports.
Mr.Ayala visiting Nagorno Karabakh met â€œpresident of the so-called republicâ€ Arkadi Gukasyan. They exchanged views on the peaceful solution of Karabakh conflict and justice solution in the meeting. The member of Armenian Dashnaksutyun Party, Armenia permanent representative to Socialist International Kiro Manoyan participated in the meeting.
The co-chair of Azerbaijan Social Democratic Party Araz Alizadeh who invited Mr.Ayala to Azerbaijan told the APA, his visit to the region was possibly only in this way.
Alizadeh said that issue on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict has been debated in Socialist International meeting held in Geneva on June 29-30.
He underlined that he and the leader of Dashnaksutyun Party delivered speech in that meeting and decision was made on Socialist International participation in the solution of the conflict.
â€œThough Mr.Ayala got acquaint with Karabakh problem, he never visited this region. Therefore, his visit to the region aimed to get acquainted with the region. I stated in my speech in Geneva that only 1/3 of Karabakh population are living there. But Armenian representative said that the population increased there. Mr.Ayala wanted to get acquainted with the situation in the place of the incident and the aim of his visit was this,â€ he said.
Alizadeh said that conference dedicated to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is intended to be held in September on the initiative of Socialist International.
â€œOne day of the conference will be held in Yerevan, the other day in Baku,â€ he said. /APA/