The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) should send a fact-finding mission to the region not on the humanitarian situation of the Armenian residents of Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region, but because of the mine terror in Armenia and the illegal import of weapons into Karabakh, member of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE, Ednews reports that MP Konul Nurullayeva told this.
She stressed that the statements of PACE President Tiny Kox on the humanitarian situation and the rights of Armenians in Karabakh are unacceptable:
“The Azerbaijani Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Relations and Inter-Parliamentary Ties has already spoken on this issue. PACE is obliged to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. As for the statement about the so-called ‘humanitarian crisis’, this is an invention of the Armenian side. That’s because the Lachin road provides movement in both directions, accompanied by the International Committee of the Red Cross, there are no restrictions on the border crossing of Armenian residents for medical purposes,” the MP noted.
But it seems that PACE is not interested in this, she believes: “If the mission is objective, it will become clear that this is a group of separatists blocking roads from other regions of Azerbaijan to villages populated by Armenians in the Karabakh region of the country in order to demand uncontrolled passage along the Lachin road. It was at the suggestion of Yerevan that the Aghdam-Khankandi road, along which humanitarian cargo could be delivered, was blocked with concrete bricks.
“With the creation of the Lachin border checkpoint, the illegal delivery of ammunition to the territory of Azerbaijan, where the number of mine victims is growing, was prevented. PACE should condemn the mine terror of Armenia. It is Armenia that violates all obligations,” Konul Nurullayeva noted.
