AZERI OFFICIAL SAYS VOTE PLANNED IN REBEL KARABAKH TO HURT PEACE TALKS
Lider TV
May 19 2010
Azerbaijan
An Azerbaijani official has said that a parliamentary election planned
to be held in the breakaway Nagornyy Karabakh region later in May
would undermine peace negotiations with Armenia.
"We have condemned this election and we have underlined that the
election will have a negative effect on the negotiations process,"
Ali Hasanov, head of the public and political department of the
Azerbaijani Presidential Administration, said on the Lider TV channel.
"We have announced that the election is unacceptable for Azerbaijan
and we have called the OSCE co-chairs to assess the election with
the same principle and condemn it. Each step of the separatist regime
and each step taken to approve the actions of the separatist regime
adversely affects the peace building process and the settlement of
the Nagornyy Karabakh, Armenia and Azerbaijan conflict."
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
