(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 29. On May 29, the visit
of the working group of the Council of the EU on Eastern Europe and
Central Asia (COEST) to Azerbaijan began, trend reports.
The visit will last until May 31.
The delegation of about 40 people includes diplomats in charge
of the region in accredited diplomatic missions of EU member states
in Brussels, as well as officials from 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 delegation held
meetings with the Special Representative of the President of the
Republic of Azerbaijan in the liberated territories of the Karabakh
economic region (except Shusha district) Emin Huseynov, as well as
with senior officials of the State Commission for Prisoners of War,
Hostages and Missing Persons, the State Committee For Affairs Of
Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons and ANAMA.
The COEST delegation was informed about the acts of vandalism
committed by the Republic of Armenia during the 30-year occupation,
the destruction, the grave consequences of the occupation in
general, as well as the construction projects implemented after the
second Karabakh war and the return of the former internally
displaced persons to the village of Aghali in Zangilan, the village
of Talish in Terter and the city of Lachin as part of the "Great
Return" program. Detailed information was also provided on the
process of excavations and exhumations carried out in the
territories liberated from occupation in order to find the remains
of missing persons during the years of the first Karabakh war.
The delegation got acquainted with the remains of the mosque
destroyed by the Armenians in the village of Merdinli of the Fuzuli
district, as well as the cemetery in the village of Garakhanbayli.
It was noted that the invaders did not leave a single whole
building in Fuzuli, which was one of the developed cities of
Azerbaijan. All residential and private houses in the city, as well
as the editorial office, the theater building and other buildings
operating in the city center were razed to the ground.
Then the members of the delegation visited the city of Aghdam,
liberated from the occupation. They got acquainted with the ruins
of the city of Aghdam, known as the "Caucasian Hiroshima", saw the
surviving wall of the Drama Theater. It was noted that historical,
cultural and architectural monuments, caves and barrows, tombs and
tombstones were also subjected to acts of vandalism by
Armenians.
The guests also met with ANAMA demining personnel in Aghdam and
observed the process of clearing some of the mines and unexploded
ordnance found in the area.
During the visit of the EU delegation to Azerbaijan, meetings
are scheduled with high-ranking officials of a number of state
structures.
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