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Deputy Foreign Minister Vagif Sadikhov: â€œAzerbaijan makes all efforts to solve Nagorno karabakh conflictâ€

21 January 2010 13:10 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Ibad Bagirov â€“ APA. Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Vagif Sadikhov spoke about the most painful problem of Azerbaijan â€“ Nagorno karabakh conflict in his interview to Saudi Arabian Ukaz newspaper. According to APA, the deputy minister said 20 percent of Azerbaijani lands were under the Armenian occupation and Azerbaijan was making all efforts to solve this problem.

Vagif Sadikhov said Saudi Arabia was playing significant role in establishing peace and stability not only in the region, but in entire world. He said Azerbaijan was attaching great importance to the strengthening of economic, political and cultural relations with Saudi Arabia. The deputy minister emphasized that Saudi Arabia was one of the first countries, which support Azerbaijan in the solution of Nagorno Karabakh problem. He highly appreciated humanitarian assistance of Saudi Arabia to the Azerbaijani refugees.

The deputy minister attended the meeting of experts researching the observing status issue in OIC Chapter on January 18-20. Vagif Sadikhov will also attend the conference â€œThe role of OIC in defending peace and security and solution to the conflicts in the territories of OIC member countriesâ€ on January 23-24.