PACE co-rapporteur: 20% of Azerbaijani territory is occupied, more than a million refugees exist

  24 June 2015    Read: 3679
PACE co-rapporteur: 20% of Azerbaijani territory is occupied, more than a million refugees exist
Twenty percent of Azerbaijani territory is occupied, there are more than a million refugees and internally displaced people, co-rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, Tadeusz Iwinski said on Tuesday in the report on "The functioning of democratic institutions in Azerbaijan" in the second day of the summer session of the Assembly.

He also noted that the report was difficult for him: "It was difficult. Azerbaijan attracts attention with Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. 20% of Azerbaijani territory is occupied, more than a million refugees exist. Unfortunately, it`s true. Recently, the European Court of Human Rights in its decision on the case of "Chiragov and others against Armenia" notes Armenia`s effective control over Nagorno-Karabakh and the adjacent territories, and finding Lachin under the jurisdiction of Armenia."

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

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