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Ogtay Asadov: â€œAzerbaijan is holding negotiations on reports about Russiaâ€™s selling weapons to Armeniaâ€

10 February 2009 12:19 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Elbrus Seyfullayev â€“ APA. Parliamentarians put forward a number of proposals in todayâ€™s sitting of the parliament, APA reports. MP Fazail Agamali said official language of Azerbaijan was not obeyed in the central streets of the city.
â€œPurchase and sale is in Russian in Nizami, Samad Vurgun, Khagani and other streets. Advertisements in the streets are in Russian. It should be prevented,â€ he said.
The parliamentarian said Guba mass burial cemetery was decaying. Fazail Agamali offered the speaker to appeal to president in connection with it.
â€œGuba cemetery should be turned to museum,â€ he said.

MP Arzu Samadbayli said price cut was observed in the world due to the financial crisis, but it did not happen in Azerbaijan. He said parliamentarians from Musavat had offered to reduce energy carriers.

Speaker Ogtay Asadov said the world financial crisis would not affect Azerbaijan.

MP Vahid Ahmadov said Russiaâ€™s selling weapons to Armenia should be taken seriously.
â€œAzerbaijan should react strictly and express its position. Russia has recently sold over $2 billion weapons to Armenia,â€ he said.

Speaker said the reports that Russia sold weapons to Armenia were being analyzed, negotiations were being held.
â€œNecessary decision will be made in the end,â€ he said.

MP Fazil Mustafa said lotteries were shown much on TV channels, while speeches of parliamentarians were not shown. He said network games were widely spread in Baku.
â€œThere were such games before. Remember â€œMunjugâ€ operation. Law-enforcement should express their opinion on it,â€ he said.

MP Ehed Abiyev said the business of the network was mainly spread in the southern regions of Azerbaijan.
â€œA group of famous businessmen swindle people of gold, diamonds. Law-enforcement bodies should take measures about it. Those engaged in network business should be held accountable. It may cause anxiety in public on the eve of the referendum,â€ he
said.

MP Jamil Hasanli said the 17rg anniversary of Khojaly genocide was approaching. He offered to discuss the issue in one the sitting of the parliament and inform the parliament about the investigation of the criminal case.
â€œThough we demand others to give legal assessment to it, we do not yet know what the matter is,â€ he said.

MP Panah Huseyn said the time allotted for the registration of initiative groups on referendum will expire today, but the opposition groups have not been registered yet.
He proposed the Parliament to appeal CEC to consider the issue positively. MP stated that criminal cases launched by Military Court on Khojaly massacre did not cover names of Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan, who committed terrorist attack in Azerbaijan.
â€œWhy does not the list cover their names? Their names should be in the list as well,â€ he said.

MP Siyavush Novruzov noted that initiative groups on referendum were not registered at the request of anybody, this issue was considered legally.
â€œTheir registration will be considered,â€ he added.

Novruzov mentioned that a criminal case on Khojaly massacre had been launched and the Parliament could ask reference from Military Court as it was last year.

MP Elmira Akhundova stated that media did not cover speeches of MPs objectively. She proposed to open a TV Channel to air speeches of MPs.

Asadov protested the proposal. â€œWhom can we say to allocate special Channel for MPs? TV Channels are independent,â€ he said.

Vice-Speaker Bahar Muradova added that the media covered activity of the Parliament sufficiently.
â€œThe issue can be debated how the media covers it,â€ she added.
Muradova underlined that there was divergence of opinion in opposition on the referendum. She stressed that a group of them demanded to stop it and the rest want creation of condition for them to function in this sphere.
Muradova did not agree to opinions of those, who protested decisions on dubbing of Turkish films in Azerbaijan and underlined that National Television and Radio Council passed a correct decision to discontinue local radio broadcasts of international media as well as it.

The Vice-Speaker added that there was no need for concern about world economic crisis.
â€œAzerbaijan is able to prevent itself from the crisis,â€ she said.