`Azerbaijan`s territorial integrity is as valuable as other countries`

  16 November 2016    Read: 1157
`Azerbaijan`s territorial integrity is as valuable as other countries`
`In October, Rome Pope Francis visited Azerbaijan and met with heads of religious communities. This is the result that we have achieved. Thus, today we witness religious and ethnic conflicts around the world and we are very concerned about it. Therefore, we are pursuing the policy of multiculturalism. We are in favor of cooperation`, he highlighted the existence of inter-religious dialogue in Baku.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev made the remarks at the opening ceremony of the 5th News Agencies World Congress and the 16th General Assembly of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) Nov.16 in Baku.

The head of state noted that representatives of different ethnic and religious groups live in peace and harmony in Azerbaijan. “We would wish positive development in the region and the world in this field”, he added.

Speaking about the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, the president said that Nagorno Karabakh is a historical land of Azerbaijan. “During the USSR period, Azerbaijan’s autonomous region Nagorno Karabakh and 7 districts were occupied, and over 1 million Azerbaijanis became refugees and internally displaced people. Armenia carried out ethnic cleansing. Four resolutions of the UN Security Council demand withdrawal of Armenian occupying forces from the occupied territories. Mechanisms for implementing the resolutions of UN Security Council must be considered. In most cases, the resolutions of the UN Security Council are implemented within a few days and the implementation of some lasts for years. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Non-Aligned Movement and European organizations also passed similar decisions. However, Armenia ignores these documents. It is destroying mosques, monuments in the occupied territories. The reports of the two OSCE fact-finding missions confirmed it. But the Armenian church is preserved in Baku,” said president.

The head of state stressed that the Nagorno Karabakh conflict must be solved within the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. “Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity is as valuable as the territorial integrity of other countries. The principle of the solution of a conflict within the territorial integrity in the post-Soviet space should be applied to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict as well,” Aliyev noted.

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