March 18, 2005 - 10:28 AMT
ARMENIAN AND AZERI PARLIAMENTARIANS DISCUSSING DRAFT REPORT ON KARABAKH IN BRUSSELS
Today Armenian and Azeri parliamentarians as well as representatives of the OSCE PA are completing 2-day discussions of the Goran Lennmarker's draft report on Nagorno Karabakh, Armenpress agency reports. Armenian Parliament Vice Speaker Vahan Hovhanissian and Republican Party member Manvel Nikoian are serving on the Armenian delegation. Azerbaijan's representative Aldar Ibrahimov told the Azeri media that the Azerbaijani deputies will do their best to make the item of Atkinson's report (where Armenia is described as an occupant-state) adopted in the PACE be reflected in the report prepared by OSCE PA Special Representative on Karabakh Goran Lennmarker. Lennmarker's report will be presented at the annual sitting of the OSCE PA to be held in Washington in July. In Ibrahimov's words if the above-mentioned item were included in the present report it would considerably simplify the adoption of the resolution, in which Armenia is stated as an "occupant". The members of the Armenian delegation are working for neutralization of the consequences of Atkinson's report.