Albania Mauritania

(g) To clarify the relationship between treaty bodies and a future Human Rights Council in order to avoid duplication

Specific human rights issues

3 August 2005

Mauritius for the ACP Group

Azerbaijan AZE

The Government of Azerbaijan reported that the Constitution of Azerbaijan provides for unimpeded entry of foreign nationals to the territory of the State, freedom to choose one's residence, as well as exercise of the other human rights and freedoms equally with the citizens of Azerbaijan.

Item 11 of the agenda

Northern Ireland

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Except Azerbaijan, El Salvador and Honduras.

Ms. Adjalova (Azerbaijan) said that her Government stood ready to support fully the work of the Representative.

Republic of Azerbaijan.

(Signed) Ilham Aliyev President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Except Azerbaijan, El Salvador, Honduras and Peru.

In response to the claim that Nagorno Karabakh had never formed part of Azerbaijan but had been forcibly annexed by Stalin, he stated that Karabakh had always been part of historical Azerbaijan and had been populated by Azerbaijanis.

Everybody, who has an idea of the history of Azerbaijan, knows that Khodjaly, a settlement founded 3,000 years ago in the mountainous part of Karabakh, is one of the oldest settlements of Azerbaijanis.

Chairman Mr. Aliyev (Azerbaijan)

Azerbaijan failed to recognize that the sad situation referred to in the report was the result of its own aggression against the people of Nagorny Karabakh in their legitimate and peaceful quest for self determination.

Mr. Mammadov (Azerbaijan) began by stating that his country had always supported the norms and principles of international law, including the right of peoples to self determination.

Ms. Gardashova (Azerbaijan) said that the promotion of human rights and the rule of law had been an integral part of Azerbaijan's national development strategy.

Azerbaijan stated in its notification that it had designated the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan as the national body.

Except Azerbaijan, Belarus, Honduras, New Zealand and Peru.

Taking advantage of the conditions at the end of the 1980s, the Armenian nationalists first completed the forcible deportation of hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis who were the primordial inhabitants of the territory of the Republic of Armenia, and then launched an open military aggression against Azerbaijan in order to carry out their territorial claims against our country.

Abstaining Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan

Documents Presented by the Government of Azerbaijan

During the genocide perpetrated in March 1918, over 30,000 civilians were killed in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan.

Statement by the Milli Mejlis (Parliament) of Azerbaijan on the thirteenth anniversary of the occupation of the city of Shusha, of Azerbaijan, by the armed forces of Armenia

Contrary to the Armenian representative's presentation or, rather, misrepresentation the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan did not refer to the territories surrounding the Nagorny Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, but to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.

Ms. Mammadova (Azerbaijan), speaking in exercise of the right of reply, said that, while Armenia claimed to advocate regional cooperation, it was pursuing a policy of aggression against Azerbaijan and occupying about 20 per cent of its territory.

In three Commonwealth countries (Azerbaijan, Russian Federation and Ukraine) prices are being collected in capital cities only.

later Mr. Aliyev (Azerbaijan)

Is Azerbaijan Next?

Azerbaijan has never resorted to military aggression.

Reissued for technical reasons.

The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.

As the first country to issue a fiscal transparency report, Azerbaijan advocated transparency.

Mr. Mammadov (Azerbaijan) First, let me, on behalf of the people and the Government of Azerbaijan, extend our deepest condolences to the victims and the families of the victims of the tsunami disaster that took place in the Indian Ocean.

Azerbaijan considers development to be a central goal and, to that end, reiterates its commitment to fully implement the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

In answer to the question posed by the representative of Armenia regarding the nature of the legal basis asserted by Azerbaijan, he said that the conflict could be regarded as having begun on 20 February 1988, when the regional Soviet of the Nagorny Karabakh Autonomous Region had adopted a decision to petition the Supreme Soviets of the Azerbaijan SSR and the Armenian SSR for the transfer of the Nagorny Karabakh Autonomous Region from the Azerbaijan SSR to the Armenian SSR.

Armenia, having failed to achieve its political goal of obtaining the secession of Nagorny Karabakh from Azerbaijan, started the expulsion of Azerbaijanis from Armenia and resorted, subsequently, to military aggression in order to acquire, forcibly, the territory of the Nagorny Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and to institute ethnic cleansing in the occupied Azerbaijani territories.

Expressing the sovereign will of the Azerbaijani people, the Milli Mejlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan declares once again that the Republic of Azerbaijan will never agree to the seizure of sovereignty in a part of its territory or the outrageous occupation and separation of its primordial lands, and will resort to all possible means in order to achieve the restoration of its territorial integrity.

Except Azerbaijan, Honduras, Peru and the United Republic of Tanzania.

All the residents came via Yerevan from Azerbaijan or from Gyumri.

The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan