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14 July 2010 [10:25] - Today.Az
Official Baku expects OSCE to be impartial in assessing the situation associated with settlement of the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, Fuad Ismayilov, Azerbaijani ambassador to Austria, accredited to the OSCE, said.
The OSCE Minsk Group's autumn visit to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan will be a mission to assess the situation with the settlement of these territories. A report will be prepared as a result of the mission, ambassador said over phone from Vienna.
The OSCE paid the first similar visit to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan in 2005 at the request of Baku.
The OSCE mission has confirmed the facts of settling the occupied territories. The report of the mission indicates 15,000-16,000 people. However, Baku did not agree with the data presented.
The Azerbaijani side estimated that about 20,000-23,000 Armenians have been settled in the occupied territories even before the beginning of the monitoring mission.
Today, the Azerbaijani side has new data about the settlement. It is waiting for proposals from the OSCE on its staff and format of the mission, and, of course, impartial results of its work, Ismayilov said.
Armenian officials do not conceal the fact of the Armenian settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent occupied regions of Azerbaijan.
About $350 million will be required to resettle Armenian refugees to Nagorno-Karabakh within three years, the Armenian Territorial Administration Ministry's Migration Agency Chief Gagik Yeganian said.
He said about 100,000 people can be settled in the occupied Azerbaijani territories, the Armenian media reported.
/Trend/
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