“As soon as the electoral rights of the Armenian citizens by Azerbaijani origin are fully ensured, it will be possible to consider the issues related to the participation of the Armenians left Azerbaijan,” Natig Mammadov, the secretary of the Azerbaijani Central Election Committee (CEC), told Trend. He was commenting the information spread by Armenian media on “decision of 5 Armenian refugees to nominate their candidacy in the by-elections to the Milli Majlis [Parliament] on 13 May 2006”.
Mammadov stressed that the CEC did not receive any letter in this regard, but the participation of the Armenian �refugees’ was directly related to the settlement of the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict.
“As soon as the electoral rights of the Armenian citizens by Azerbaijani origin are ensured, Azerbaijan will take appropriate steps,” the secretary stressed.
Besides, touching upon the participation of the Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians, who are the Azerbaijani citizens, Mammadov said that CEC received their addresses in regard to the participation in the 6 November parliamentary elections from 122rd constituency. “The Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians repeatedly addressed to us with request on the participation in the elections and wrote about the hard social state in the self-declared regime of Arkadiy Gukasian,” Mammadov undelriend.
According to Armenian media, 5 Armenians living in Russia, Armenia, Ukraine and Belarus asked to notify them of ensuring their entrance into Azerbaijan, their safety and nomination their candidacy till 18 February.