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15 January 2005 - 15:57 AMT

LACHIN AND SHUSHI CANNOT BE OBJECTS AT ISSUE, KARABAKH POLITICIANS
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“The statements saying that Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh are following the policy of inhabiting of the liberated territories do not correspond to reality”, Armen Aghaian, a representative of a public initiative for the defense of the freed territories said to Azg newspaper reporter. On the state level the policy of inhabiting the former Armenian territories is being pursued by Azerbaijani leadership and we have a lot to learn from them, the author of the article continues. Deputy of the Karabakh parliament Maxim Mirzoian reminds that Armenians have lost about 180 000 houses in Azerbaijan. Just these people should settle the lands around Nagorno Karabakh. In this view the deputy considers it to be inadmissible to change the present status of the Karvachar (Kelbajar) and Kashatakh (Lachin) regions. “In any case Lachin and Shushu cannot be objects at issue”, states Myasnik Malkhasian, a trustee of Yekrapah, the Union of Volunteers of the Karabakh war, says.