Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in focus of Council of Europe sub-committee

/By AzerNews/

By Mushvig Mehdiyev

The Council of Europe established a special sub-committee to deal with the conflicts in the territories of its member-states.

The decision on the creation of the body was made as part of the meeting of the spring session of the PACE Monitoring Committee's Assembly.

Addressing the meeting, Head of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE, Samad Seyidov expressed his satisfaction with the sub-committee's establishment.

"We are pleased with the Monitoring Committee's decision to create a sub-committee on Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. It means that the conflict will always be on the discussions' agenda," he said.

True to its propaganda tradition and belligerent nature, the Armenian delegation attempted to cover up the conflict and prevent its discussion throughout the talks.

"The majority of Committee members voted in favor of creating the sub-committee on conflicts, except of course the Armenian representatives. In my previous speeches I stressed the importance of creating a particular sub-committee on the conflict and finally the Monitoring Committee adopted a decision on creating the relevant body," Seyidov said.

PACE's official stance on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict favors the peaceful settlement opting out any armed solution. Top level addresses from the organization unequivocally urge Armenia and Azerbaijan to follow peaceful manners as to keep tensions at a minimum along the Line of Contact.

PACE President, Anne Brasseur's recent addresses have put the dialogue option above all ways of solution. She believes that the answers to the questions of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict could be fetched via mutual negotiations.

Azerbaijan's internationally recognized Nagorno-Karabakh territory was turned into a battlefield and zone of aggravated tensions after Armenia sent its troops to occupy Azerbaijan's lands in the early 1990s. As a result, 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory stands under military occupation of Armenia.

Baku's diligence in view of settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is well seen in the international arena, however it is yet to receive relevant feedbacks from Yerevan.

For the past two decades, and despite calls from the international community, Armenia has refused to withdraw its troops and retreat within its national borders.