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Azerbaijan reports to U.S. about legal aspects of Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict

06 November 2009 07:47 (UTC +04:00)

Within the framework of 11th Azerbaijan-U.S. security dialogue in Washington, Azerbaijan submitted a report describing legal aspects of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno Karabakh conflict to the United States, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Araz Azimov said at a briefing at the U.S. National Press Center, APA reports quoting Azertac news agency.

Azerbaijan-U.S. security dialogue launched in 1996 is contributing as a framework mechanism in the determination of directions of defense and security cooperation between the sides. Azerbaijani deputy foreign minister Araz Azimov and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State for political and military affairs Andrew Shapiro co-chaired the next round of the dialogue in Washington, where they discussed prevention of proliferation of the weapons of mass destruction, drug trafficking in the region, war on terror, strengthening of security in the Caspian basin, U.S. interests in the region and other issues, as well as ways of extension of the bilateral cooperation opportunities in this sphere.

The deputy minister said law experts in Washington learned the report prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the legal aspects of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. They unanimously supported the settlement of the conflict on the basis of the principle of territorial integrity. Azimov noted that the principle of self-determination, Armenian argument in the negotiations, can not be contradictory to the principle of territorial integrity. Azerbaijan is ready, as a concession, to review the status of 50 000 Armenian community living in the Nagorno Karabakh region within its state borders, but this process can not be realized without participation of 70 000 Azerbaijani community displaced from the region.

The deputy foreign minister said he was hopeful that the United States, as the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair, would make more efforts for the solution to the conflict. â€œWe are living at the time which requires results for the stability and security of the regionâ€.

Azimov recommended to those, who donâ€™t link the opening of the Turkish-Armenian borders with the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, to carefully approach the processes in the region.