"KARABAKH PROBLEM NOT ONLY FOR AZERBAIJAN, BUT WHOLE ISLAMIC WORLD"

December 2, 2004 - 22:26 AMT

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"Karabakh is a problem not only for Azerbaijan, but also the whole Islamic world," stated representative of the International Islamic Youth Conference Saad bin Fahd al Khiid. In his turn leader of the board of Muslims of the Caucasus sheik ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazade stated that the Islamic Conferences is the only organization that backs the Azerbaijani position in the Karabakh settlement. He stated it when commenting on the visit of Azeri President Ilham Aliyev to Qatar to meet with Islamic Conferences leaders. Azerbaijan is member of the Islamic Conferences since 1992, however official Baku becoming close with the organization takes place recently after the Islamic Conferences member countries supported Azerbaijan in its initiative to submit the Nagorno Karabakh problem for discussion by the UN. Meanwhile, Islamists, in the opinion of many political scientists, can become an actual political force in Azerbaijan in the near future.

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