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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev: â€œI hope the Nagorno Karabakh conflict will be solved soon enoughâ€

17 April 2009 14:59 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijani President said in Moscow that he hoped the Nagorno Karabakh conflict would be solved soon.
â€œI hope the Nagorno Karabakh conflict will be solved soon enough. Of course, we are not pleased that there are no results, but we should not close our eyes to the improvement in the process of negotiations. This improvement increases our hopes that the conflict will be solved soon enough. The positions of the parties have recently come closer, some issues causing difficulty before have already been agreed. This creates a good basis for the continuation of the negotiations,â€ he said.
President Ilham Aliyev said there were issues that had not been agreed by the sides.
â€œThe efforts of official Baku are based on constructive approach, international law and restoration of the historical justice. It is no secret that Azerbaijani territories have been under occupation for 20 years and this fact has been recognized by the international community. We hope we will be able to move the process of settlement forward, find solution meeting the interests of both nations, ensuring restoration of Azerbaijanâ€™s territorial integrity and international norms and principles in the region. It will be to the advantage of everybody and in this case we can speak about large-scale regional cooperation in the South Caucasus,â€ he said.