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24 March 2004 - 18:20 AMT

CONSIDERING “OVERPRESSURE OF WORK” AZERI DELEGATION NOT PARTICIPATING PA BSECO CONFERENCE IN YEREVAN

Azeri delegation is not taking part in the sitting of the Commission for Culture, Education and Social Issues of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (PA BSECO) that opened in Yerevan today. To remind, earlier Azeri media according to Milli Mejlis reported that their delegation will not participate in the forthcoming conference, as Armenia “did not vouch” for their security. As deputy to the Commission chairman, Romania’s representative Dumitru Buzatu stated in Yerevan today, the Azeri delegation in advance brought to the notice of the PA BSECO leadership that it is not going to take part in the forum in view of “overpressure of work”. In his turn, head of the Armenian delegation in the PA BSECO Gagik Minasian conditioned the absence of the Azerbaijani delegation by the fact that in such cases they arrived in Armenia through the territory of Georgia together with the Georgian colleagues, who did not come to Yerevan either explaining it by the coming parliamentary election planned March 28.