Prospective cooperation between the government of Azerbaijan and UN High Commissioner for Refugees was discussed

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Mətbuat xidmətinin məlumatı 04 JUNE, 2015

Deputy Prime Minister of the Azerbaijan Republic, Chairman of State Committee on Affairs of Refugees and Displaced Persons Ali Hasanov has received regional representative of UN High Commissioner for Refugees on South Caucasus Ms. Simone Wolken and Head of UNHCR representation in our country Dag Sigurdson on June 4. In a meeting of mutual exchange of opinions it was emphasized that relations between the government of Azerbaijan and UN High Commissioner for Refugees has been established on good basis and that election of Azerbaijan as a member of UNHCR Executive Committee is an obvious case of it. He said again that the state of Azerbaijan has carried out great works in the direction of resolution of the problems of refugees and displaced persons. Deputy Prime Minister Ali Hasanov spoke about Azerbaijan's achievements in recent years, measures carried out by the state in the direction of resolution of the problems of refugees and displaced persons in our country and drew attention that today only unresolved problem of our country is Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh conflict and problems of refugees and displaced persons as a result of this conflict. Ali Hasanov noted that, continuing to occupy the Azerbaijani lands, aggressive Armenia achieved nothing. For this period, the economy of Armenia appeared in even more difficult situation. For the last years, the Armenian people benefited nothing from the conflict, on the contrary, a lot of things lost. Azerbaijan after restoration of its independence has built a democratic, constitutional state. Today Azerbaijan is open for the world, it is the most tolerant country. Representatives of all nationalities, religions live here as one family, in the conditions of peace and tranquility. Churches and synagogues function in Baku. Over the last ten years, the country has held two interreligious international conferences. Religious leaders almost from 160 countries participated in these events. Despite occupation of its lands, Azerbaijan is the most stable, safe country on the CIS space. Over the last ten years, Azerbaijan, quickly developing under the leadership of President Ilham Aliyev, has turned into one of the authoritative countries of the world. We are already recognized and accepted not as the oil and gas country, also as the country realizing global projects, accepting the important actions directed on the solution of universal problems. We can show as an example “Eurovision” song contest, First European Olympic Games held in Baku for the first time, international dialogue forums and many other similar events. The Deputy Prime Minister expressed that, the achievements of our country would be even greater if our lands have not been occupied and if we haven’t faced with refugees and internally displaced persons problem. Today the European countries are helpless in front of 600-700 thousands of refugees. Let’s think which problems the refugees face in those countries. All the rights of these people have been completely violated, but Europe wants to give a democracy lesson to us. Then how does Azerbaijan with a population of 10 million overcome with 1 million 200 thousand refugees and internally displaced persons? The works done by the President of Azerbaijan in this direction is an example for the whole world.