`Armenia to be responsible for outcomes of provocation in Nagorno-Karabakh`

  04 May 2016    Read: 1680
`Armenia to be responsible for outcomes of provocation in Nagorno-Karabakh`
Armenia and its leadership will bear responsibility for the outcomes of the provocation on recognition of the "independence" of the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan said in a statement on May 4.
Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry was commenting on media reports that the Armenian parliament is intending to discuss the bill recognizing the “independence” of the so-called regime in Nagorno-Karabakh.

The foreign ministry noted that by regularly undertaking provocative actions, including ceasefire violations, shelling Azerbaijan`s towns and villages located along the contact line between the country`s and Armenian armed forces and the border between the two countries, Armenia aims to `freeze` the situation and prevent achieving any progress in the negotiation process.

Regardless of the outcome of discussions, such a provocative step of Armenia once again flagrantly violates the norms and principles of international law, the four UN Security Council resolutions, as well as relevant documents and decisions of other international organizations on the conflict’s settlement, according to Azerbaijan`s.

“If selfish goals prevail over prudence and this provocation succeeds, the entire responsibility for the consequences will fall on Armenia and its leadership,” the Azerbaijani foreign ministry stressed.

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 OSCE 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, 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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