Parliamentary Assembly Assemblée parlementaire

Doc. 10889
11 April 2006

New plans of occupation by belligerent Armenia posing serious threats to stability and development in the South Caucasus

Written question No.489 to the Committee of Ministers
presented by Mr Rafael Huseynov

By intensifying its hostilities during recent days the Republic of Armenia, shown in Assembly resolution 1416 (2005) as an occupying state conducting ethnic cleansing against the Azerbaijanis, is putting forward its new aggressive plans. Armenia has occupied 7 adjacent districts around Nagorno-Karabakh and uses these territories as a buffer zone between the other territories of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh. However, despite the existing cease-fire in recent days, the armed forces of Armenia are continuously threatening hostilities on the front line bordering the positions of Azerbaijan, which is located hundreds of kilometres from Nagorno-Karabakh. These attacks, accompanied by numerous human losses among the civilian population and the military contingent of Azerbaijan, as well as with great material losses and destruction inflicted on the country, openly demonstrate the purposes of Armenia to occupy some other territories of Azerbaijan. The ever-intensifying military pressure by Armenia have posed a serious threat to the lives of the rural people living in Gazakh and other front line districts of Azerbaijan and created serious preconditions for the initiation of new flows of internally displaced persons in Azerbaijan.

On the other hand, Armenia has escalated its efforts to pursue its plots vis-à-vis Azerbaijan. Thus, the previously existing intentions of Armenia to seize the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan of Azerbaijan are now openly being manifested. Armenia has set up appropriate military and intelligent structures in this regard, a cease-fire regime is repeatedly being violated in the front line areas almost on a daily basis, groundless misinformation is being spread by them concerning the alleged destruction of some old graves in Nakhchivan with the intention to substantiate by false means their territorial claims and, moreover, a new wave of ideological war has been launched by Yerevan.

      Considering these disturbing attempts by the Republic of Armenia targeted at undermining stability in the South Caucasus;

      Mr Rafael Huseynov asks the Committee of Ministers:

      In the present situation when Armenia, officially considered to be an occupier by the Assembly, putting forward manifestly its new occupying intentions and with this purpose in mind undertaking concrete steps, what discussions can the Committee of Ministers conduct within its competences and what effective measures can it take in order to stop the aggressor.

Signed ¹:

HUSEYNOV, Rafael, Azerbaijan, ALDE

¹     SOC: Socialist Group
       EPP/CD: Group of the European People’s Party
       ALDE: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
       EDG: European Democratic Group
       UEL: Group of the Unified European Left
       NR: not registered in a group