Martyred Azerbaijani soldier laid to rest

Martyred Azerbaijani soldier laid to rest
# 28 February 2017 08:13 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijani soldier Shahlar Nazarov (1990), who died fighting to repel an armed provocation by Armenian armed forces a few days ago, was today laid to rest in the Peshtasar village of Yardimli district, his home village, APA’s south bureau reported.

Defense Ministry officials, the district’s administration, as well as public figures, paid their last respects to the martyred soldier.

The other Azerbaijani soldiers who died while preventing the provocations of the Armenian army along the frontline on the night of February 24 to 25 include Agshin Abdullayev, Tural Hashimli, Zulfu Gadimov and Zakir Jafarov.

The bodies of these soldiers were carried away from the battlefield with the participation of international intermediaries yesterday.

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 CSCE (OSCE after the Budapest summit held in Dec.1994) 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, the 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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