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Bahar Muradova: Bernard Fassier said at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly that Armenia wants to gain time through protracting the solution of the conflict

14 October 2011 12:31 (UTC +04:00)

The proposal was serious, the discussions were held as a result of the efforts of JoÃ£o Soares and Petros Efthymiou,â€ vice-speaker of Azerbaijani parliament, head of the Azerbaijani delegation to OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) Bahar Muradova said at the press conference, APA reports.

Bahar Muradova said OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs also attended the meeting. Though it had been said that one of the co-chairs would miss the meeting, all the three co-chairs and personal representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk attended the discussions.

Vice-speaker said French co-chair Bernard Fassier made a speech first, his speech was constructive with some exceptions.
â€œFassierâ€™s speech can be considered constructive. He said Nagorno Karabakh is the territory of Azerbaijan. Nagorno Karabakh, including the seven adjacent regions has been occupied by Armenia. There are one million refugees. Though there are several variants concerning the resolution of the conflict, the sides do not agree to it. The Azerbaijani side does not support peopleâ€™s right to self-determination, the Armenian side wants to gain time through protracting the solution of the conflict. On the eve of the adoption of the resolution, the Armenian side rejected it. US co-chair Robert Bradtke gave information about the Madrid principles, Russian co-chair Igor Popov about the extra activity of Russia as a co-chairing country. Andrzej Kasprzykâ€™s complaint about the number of the staff members in his office caused discontent of the parliamentarians. Kasprzyk said 20 were killed, 36 wounded from both sides in the past nine years,â€ she said.

Muradova said Azerbaijani delegation demonstrated constructive position during the discussions and speech of the head of delegation was accepted positively. Azerbaijani side accepted the Madrid principles, supports the peaceful solution to the conflict and is ready to build confidence between the sides.

Vice speaker said that Armenian representatives made non-constructive speeches, which caused protests by the European parliamentarians. â€œWe didnâ€™t see any constructiveness in the Armenian position. They accused Azerbaijan of breaking the results of Kazan meeting. They claimed that Azerbaijan didnâ€™t withdraw snipers from the frontline. We said Azerbaijani side didnâ€™t want incidents in the frontline and was investigating the causes. We are ready even to withdraw our troops from the frontline. For that Armenian must leave the occupied territories of Azerbaijan and withdraw troops from thereâ€.

Muradova added that on the opening day of the session, she met with the representatives of 25 countries and invited them to attend the hearings. 19 of them delivered speeches and most of them supported the solution to the conflict on the basis of the UN and European Parliamentâ€™s decisions. Representatives of Ukraine, Belgium, Belarus, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Italy, Turkey and other countries stated that they see the solution to the conflict only within the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. Their ideas will be described in the OSCE PAâ€™s winter session report.

Other members of the Azerbaijani delegation to the OSCE PA â€“ Eldar Ibrahimov, Aghalar Veliyev and Rabiyyat Aslanova also participated in the press conference.