BAKU (Reuters) – Azerbaijan will allow a group of United Nations experts to visit the Nagorno-Karabakh region “within a few days”, the office of a presidential adviser in Baku said on Friday.
The media will also be able to go to Nagorno-Karabakh, he assured, while nearly 90,000 Armenians living in the region fled to Armenia after the defeat of local separatist forces against the Azerbaijani army.
The United States and other countries have asked Baku to allow international observers to visit Nagorno-Karabakh, fearing possible human rights violations.
Armenia accuses Azerbaijan, where a predominantly Muslim population lives, of ethnic cleansing in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, populated by Christian Armenians, since the recapture of the territory last week by Baku, which denies these allegations .
(Reuters office report, written by Gareth Jones, Blandine Hénault for the French version, edited by Jean-Stéphane Brosse)
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