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Azerbaijani Preisdent: â€œFor restoration of confidence, Armenia should withdraw its troops from occupied territoriesâ€

28 June 2014 12:12 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Ramiz Mikayiloglu – APA. “Cooperation with Europe is a priority for Azerbaijan. At the same time, we have also established relations with other intenational organizations, states”, said the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in his speech at the opening ceremony of the session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Baku.

Head of the state noted that one of the main successes of Azerbaijan was election as non-permanent member of the UN Security Council two years ago: “This is the greatest political victory of our country”.

Noting Azerbaijan’s chairmanship to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, I. Aliyev said that the main issue is the fulfillment of the decisions of the international organizations: “”The UN SC has some resolutions that are fulfilled in a few hours, some resolutions that are only on the paper for 20 years. There are such resolutions in respect to Azerbaijan and Azerbaijani people are concerned about it. As a result of this, confidence on the international organizations can be declines. Over the last 20 years we have suffered from Armenian aggression. Nagorno Karabakh is eternal Azerbaijan’s land and under occupation of Armenia over 20 years. Armenians have conducted ethnic cleansing policy against Azerbaijan. Khojaly genocide has been recognized by many of countries of the world”.

Head of the state mentioned that Armenia ignores decisions of the UN and the OSCE regarding Azerbaijan’s occupied territories, the Nagorno Karabagh conflict and noted that Armenia also ignores statements of the OSCE Minsk Group: “The co-chairs say that status-quo should be changed. That’s’ the territories should be liberated. Armenia ignores it. Settlement of the conflict basing on the territorial integrity is the initial condition. Regarding self-determination, according to Helsinki principles, this should not contradict territorial integrity. Armenians have already self-determined once, why do they have to build the second state in Azerbaijan’s territories? After all, current Armenia has also been built in Azerbaijan’s territory”.

President I. Aliyev stressed that for restoration of confidence, Armenia should withdraw its troops from occupied territories.