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PACE report on "Enforced population transfer as a human rights violation" causes protest by Azerbaijani delegation

27 January 2012 15:33 (UTC +04:00)

APAâ€™s European bureau reports that information about Azerbaijani refugees and displaced persons was not reflected in the report which presented by Lithuanian deputy Egidijus Vareikis, the chairman of the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights and the situation in the South Caucasus around this problem was described with common expressions. The member of Azerbaijani delegation Ganira Pashayeva expressed protest to this issue. Azerbaijani MP said that enforced population transfer from their lands and homes was a serious issue: â€œWe also support the idea that the Council of Europe must seriously support the settlement of this problem. But the speaker points out in the report that there were the cases of enforced population transfer during the developments in the Caucasus. It is needed to describe this issue concretely and clearly in the report. This report should be pointed out that about 250 thousand Azerbaijanis were forcibly resettle from their lands and homes as a result of ethnic cleansing by Armenia in 1988. We want this fact to be reflected in the document. In addition, thousands of Azerbaijanis turned into refugees and internally displaced persons as a result of Armenian occupation of Azerbaijani lands. These facts should be seriously reflected in the report. I have already noted that the rights of all people should be protected individually. But here we are talking about hundreds of thousands of people. It is necessary to reflect the issues of these people clearly in the reportâ€.