Azerbaijan, Baku, 19 March / corr. Trend I. Alizade/ The journalists, internally displaced from the Kalbajar region of Azerbaijan occupied by Armenia, will stage a protest demonstration before the Baku office of United Nations on 2 April.
"The protest action will be held in connection with the 15th anniversary of capture of Kalbajar region by the Armenian Armed Forces," Elshad Eyvazli, one of the organizers of the protest demonstration and chairman of Union of Parliament Journalists said to Trend on 19 March.
On 2 April 1993, Kalbajar region of Azerbaijan was captured by Armenians. The territory of the region makes up 1,936 cu. km, the population - 70,000. At present, the displaced residents of region live in 59 regions of Azerbaijan.
After the forceful capture of Kalbajar region, the UN Security Council passed the Resolution # 822 in its 3205th meeting. The Resolution demands the immediate withdrawal of Armenian armed forces from Kalbajar and other occupied territories of Azerbaijan. The Resolution has not been implemented yet. Later, the UN Security Council passed the Resolution # 874 on the liberation of Fizuli region and Resolution # 884 on the liberation of other occupied regions. None of these resolutions have been implemented so far.
Eyvazli said that, on 19 March, an official notification was sent to Hajibala Abutalibov, the mayor of Baku, to get permission for the protest demonstration. The action demonstration is expected to be held at noon time and some 50 journalists will take part in it.
"We think that UN Security Council should admit that either it is weak or that it does not support the fair solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem," Eyvazli said.
The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began in 1988 due to Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since 1992, Armenian Armed Forces have occupied 20% of Azerbaijan including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and its seven surrounding districts. In 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which time the active hostilities ended. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group ( Russia, France, and the US) are currently holding peaceful negotiations.