EU Council Working Group On Eastern Europe And Central Asia Visits Azerbaijan
Date
5/29/2023 3:07:37 PM
(MENAFN- AzerNews) The visit of the Council of the European Union (EU) Working
Group on Eastern Europe and Central Asia (COEST) to Azerbaijan for
May 29-31 has started.
According to Azernews , the delegation of
approximately 40 people includes diplomats in charge of the region
in the accredited diplomatic missions of the EU member states in
Brussels, as well as officials of the EU Council, the European
Commission and the European External Action Service.
On May 29, the COEST Group first visited the liberated
territories of Azerbaijan. During the visit, the special
representative of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Emin
Huseynov, as well as the State Commission on Prisoners and Missing
and Hostage Citizens and the State Committee on Refugees and Forced
Displaced Persons and Meetings with senior officials of ANAMA were
held.
The COEST delegation was informed about the acts of vandalism
committed by Armenian Republic during the 30-year occupation
period, presentations were held about the destruction, the severe
consequences of the occupation in general, as well as the
construction and reconstruction projects implemented after the
Patriotic War and the return of the former internally displaced
persons to Agali village, Zangilan, Talish village, Tartar and
Lachin city within the framework of the Great Return program. Also,
detailed information was provided on the process of excavation and
exhumation carried out in the territories freed from occupation in
order to discover the remains of the missing persons and their
corpses in the First Karabakh War.
The delegation got acquainted with the remains of the mosque in
the Mardinli village of Fuzuli, which was destroyed by Armenia, as
well as the cemetery in the Karakhanbeyli village. It was reported
that the Armenian vandals did not leave a safe building in Fuzuli,
one of the developed districts of Azerbaijan. All residential
buildings and private houses in the city, as well as the editorial
office, theater building and other buildings operating in the town
center were razed to the ground.
The delegation then visited the town of Aghdam, which was freed
from occupation. The participants of the trip got acquainted with
the ruins of the town, which is known as the Hiroshima of the
Caucasus, and saw the surviving wall of the Drama Theater. It was
noted that the committed acts of vandalism include historical,
cultural and architectural examples, caves and barrows, tombs and
gravestones.
The delegation also met with ANAMA employees engaged in demining
activities in Agdam and participated in the neutralization of some
of the mines and unexploded ammunition found in the area.
Within the framework of the EU delegation's visit to Azerbaijan,
meetings with high-ranking officials of a number of state
institutions are planned.
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