Making progress in questions of the missing in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia is possible, Rapporteur of the PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population Leo Platvoet believes, says a PACE release. After a visit to Nagorno Karabakh and Abkhazia, Platvoet is more optimistic to the prospect of progress.
The release says that having visited Baku, Tbilisit and Yerevan in June 2006, Leo Platvoet arrived at an opinion that the parties interested want to engage in that issue not from the political, but humanitarian point of view.
The PACE Rapporteur remarked that ICRC mechanisms were apt and the parties agreed over the core issue – making the lists of the missing comply and collecting data on persons, who died. Finally, Platvoet said that respective committees should work more closely to attain progress soon.
