Baku to blacklist Bulgarian MPs for making illegal visit to Nagorno-Karabakh

Baku to blacklist Bulgarian MPs for making illegal visit to Nagorno-Karabakh
# 26 May 2016 12:25 (UTC +04:00)

According to him, this illegal visit shows that there are some in Bulgaria who are bothered by strategic friendship and cooperation between Azerbaijan and Bulgaria.

“Unfortunately, Yerevan is busy doing this type of unnecessary acts instead of creating grounds for the comprehensive and substantial talks noted in the Vienna meeting,” Hajiyev stressed.

With regard to the illegal and provocative visit, the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Bulgaria will express concern to this country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and legislative body, the spokesman said, adding that after necessary specification, these MPs’ names will be added to the list of undesirable persons of Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict entered its modern phase when the Armenian SRR made territorial claims against the Azerbaijani SSR in 1988.

A fierce war broke out between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. As a result of the war, Armenian armed forces occupied some 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory which includes Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent districts (Lachin, Kalbajar, Aghdam, Fuzuli, Jabrayil, Gubadli and Zangilan), and over a million Azerbaijanis became refugees and internally displaced people.

The military operations finally came to an end when Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in Bishkek in 1994.

Dealing with the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is the OSCE Minsk Group, which was created after the meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Helsinki on 24 March 1992. The Group’s members include Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Belarus, Finland and Sweden.

Besides, the OSCE Minsk Group has a co-chairmanship institution, comprised of Russian, US and French co-chairs, which began operating in 1996.

Resolutions 822, 853, 874 and 884 of the UN Security Council, which were passed in short intervals in 1993, and other resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly, PACE, OSCE, OIC, and other organizations require Armenia to unconditionally withdraw its troops from Nagorno-Karabakh.

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