AzerTag, Azerbaijan
March 2 2005
AZERBAIJANI EMBASSY IN OTTAWA HOLDS BRIEFING
[March 02, 2005, 13:09:10]
Embassy of Azerbaijan in Ottawa, Canada has held a press briefing on
illegal settling of ethnic Armenians in the occupied territories of
Azerbaijan. It was attended by representatives of the Canadian
Foreign Affairs Department, diplomatic corps, mass media and
Azerbaijani students at the University of Ottawa.
Speaking of the work done to find peaceful solution to the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Ambassador F. Gurbanov noted that
violating Geneva Convention Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of
War Armenia is pursuing a purposeful policy of settling ethnic
Armenians in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan. He advised that
the question had been raised and debated at the United Nations
General Assembly, as well as that a special fact-finding mission of
the OSCE Minsk Group had checked the situation.
The Ambassador also provided the briefing participants with detailed
information about the roots and hard consequences of the conflict
including destruction of Azerbaijani cultural monuments and plunder
of natural resources in the occupied lands as well as cultivation of
drugs and organization of terrorist bases in the uncontrolled
territories.
Compact disks containing related video materials were distributed
among attendees.