The members of the Milli Majlis and of the Azerbaijani delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Delegation Malahat Ibrahimghizi and Kamran Bayramov joined the Rose-Roth webinar of the NATO PA on 28 June.

President of the NATO PA Gerald Edward Connolly moderated the event on the legacy dilemmas and new security challenges in the South Caucasus.

Deputy Chair of the Milli Majlis Labour and Social Policy Committee Malahat Ibrahimghizi spoke of the new realia and opportunities that had emerged in the South Caucasian region following the 44-day-long Patriotic War. She also underscored the need to maintain peace and security, and what has to be done to foster mutually beneficial co-operation and economic growth in the region. The international community should take drastic measures regarding the revanchist powers in Armenia as well as abroad; they should also expedite restoration of regional communications, make certain that Azerbaijan is given – and as soon as practicable, too – all the minefield maps for all the liberated Azerbaijani lands and, last but not least, support the current demarcation and delimitation of the borders between Azerbaijan and Armenia, in the opinion of MP Ibrahimghizi. Those arrangements, which are in the interests of all the peoples of the region and will prop their welfare, will also rid Armenia itself of economic recession whilst giving rise to an ambience of trust of the peoples, she added.

MP Kamran Bayramov, in turn, responded to the claims that the representatives of Armenia had put to Azerbaijan. MP Bayramov dismissed their claims of capture of some ‘sovereign’ Armenian territory and destruction of Armenian monuments in the liberated lands. As for the alleged hatred of Armenians in Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani MP mentioned the simple fact close to thirty thousand Armenians live in his country right now whereas not a single Azerbaijani person resides in Armenia. This alone goes to show which state exactly is cultivating a hate policy, MP Bayramov concluded.

Then came the turn of the response to the European expert Thomas de Waal: it says that territorial integrity is one of the fundamental principles of the international law as well as that the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan had been recognised by the whole global community and by international organisations. Several documents were presented in this connexion. The UN Security Council alone had passed 4 resolutions concerning the past conflict; yes, they had remained unenforced but, long years after, Azerbaijan enforced them independently.

With that, the Rose-Roth webinar of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly was over.

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