Azerbaijan: Ceasefire aimed at creating conditions for comprehensive, substantive talks

Azerbaijan: Ceasefire aimed at creating conditions for comprehensive, substantive talks
# 26 May 2016 17:44 (UTC +04:00)

Hajiyev said the status, which is unacceptable and inconsistent as part of the comprehensive political process on the conflict’s settlement, must be changed and Armenian troops withdrawn from the occupied Azerbaijani territories.

 

"If Armenia wants seeks the ceasefire, they must put an end to the occupation—which is the reason behind the ceasefire violations—and the illegal presence of Armenian troops in Azerbaijani territories. The principles of settling the conflict have been known for long. Armenia’s foreign minister should prepare their people for peace and rightly inform them about the process of resolving the conflict.

 

Unfortunately, we see the opposite. Azerbaijan has repeatedly express readiness for beginning comprehensive and substantive talks on the settlement of the conflict. At the end of this month, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov is expected to meet with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs,” he said.

 

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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