June 10, 2006 - 16:21 AMT
Report on the Missing in South Caucasus to Be Presented at PACE Winter Session
The PACE Report on the Missing in the South Caucasus Countries is expected to be discussed at the Assembly's Winter Session, reporter PACE Rapporteur, Dutch MP Leo Platvoet stated in Baku, when summing up his visit to Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan June 4-9. Speaking of the situation with those missing owing to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Platvoet spoke in favor of forming a special structure with participation of representatives of respective state bodies of Azerbaijan and Armenia. «Similar structures for search of the mission were available in the Balkans. Their activities should be based on the principles of the International Committee of the Red Cross. The human dimension report will reflect the issue of those missing in the countries of the region, as politicization of the issue is extremely dangerous,» Leo Platvoet noted, reports Turan.