AssA-Irada, Azerbaijan
January 22, 2007 Monday
PACE TO MULL RESOLUTION ON GARABAGH
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)
subcommittee on the Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict will meet
during the winter session of the assembly, its chairman, British MP
Lord Russel Johnston has said. Participants at the meeting due on
Thursday, are expected to discuss a resolution on Upper Garabagh
passed by PACE in 2005. The heads of the Azerbaijani and Armenian
delegations at PACE, the assemblys rapporteurs on the two countries,
as well as the PACE rapporteur on POWs and missing persons in the
South Caucasus Leo Platvoet will take part in the discussions. Upper
Garabagh is an Azeri region occupied by Armenian forces since a 1994
cease-fire ended separatist hostilities that killed an estimated
30,000 people and ousted about a million out of their homes. Peace
talks are brokered by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chaired by the United
States, Russia and France.