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Gudrat Hasanguliyev: â€œPreliminary agreement was reached to hold discussion of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict at the Belgian Federal Parliamentâ€

10 March 2012 12:32 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. Chairman of the All Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, MP Gudrat Hasanguliyev joined the Azerbaijani delegation which attended the Belgian Senate and Federal Parliament hearing on Nagorno Karabakh conflict and other meetings on the initiative of the Azerbaijan-Belgium parliamentary working group. Hasanguliyev said MP Elkhan Suleymanov played an important role in organizing this visit. According to APA, Azerbaijani delegation also met the speaker of Belgian Senate, the founder of the organization of Lawyers without Borders, the director of European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center, chairman of Foreign Relations Committee of the Federal Parliament, speaker of the parliament of Brussels. â€œAt least 120 members of the Belgian Senate and Federal Parliament attended the hearing â€œOccupied territories â€“ forgotten territoriesâ€ (Legal and humanist aspects of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict). Head of the Azerbaijani delegation, Deputy Prime Minister Ali Hasanov made a speech during the hearing and informed the Belgian lawmakers in details about the reasons of the conflict, interests of the regional countries in the frozen and continuous conflictâ€, said Hasanguliyev.

MPs Gudrat Hasanguliyev and Faraj Guliyev also made speeches at the hearing. Hasanguliyev said they reached preliminary agreement to hold discussion of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict at the Belgian Federal Parliament. â€œArmenian diaspora, which was informed about the Belgian Senate and Federal Parliament hearing, tried to prevent this event, but failed due to the efforts of Elkhan Suleymanov and members of the Belgium-Azerbaijan parliamentary working group.

Hasanguliyev noted that MPs Fazil Mustafa, Zahid Oruj, Jeyhun Osmanli and Azer Karimov spoke about the Nagorno Karabakh conflict during the meetings held in Belgium: â€œI would like to underline the speeches of the founder of Lawyers Without Borders and director of European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center during the hearing. Both said that Armenian side wants to draw black curtain over this conflict and tries to prevent true information and fair settlement of the conflict. They also said that the UN Security Council resolutions demanding immediate withdrawal of Armenian forces from the occupied territories of Azerbaijan have not been fulfilled yet. At the same time, they also said that the people perpetrated crimes in Nagorno Karabakh must answer for their actions. All possible legal methods must be used for bringing these people to justiceâ€.

Gudrat Hasanguliyev said their visit was successful and reminded about the exhibition held in the Azerbaijani embassyâ€™s building in Brussels on the anniversary of Khojaly genocide. â€œI consider it important that representatives of the Belgian public and political communities watched the exhibitionâ€.