He made the remarks during a presentation of the bill titled “Learning the legal aspects of the international recognition of acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing” at the parliament on Nov. 28.

The MP noted that the negotiation process over the settlement of Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is ongoing.

“Armenia, which takes a biased stance on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, is one of the active members of international organizations,” Seyidov said, adding. “Armenia’s leadership, which benefits all European projects and continues its occupation policy against Azerbaijan, must be sued over numerous crimes committed against Azerbaijanis. We are not late in any issue.”

The MP stressed the need to bring all the criminals to justice after the Nagorno-Karabakh is solved and the occupied Azerbaijani territories are liberated.

“However, I want to say that today we are actually faced with the problem of non-implementation of four UN resolutions. Therefore, it’s very hard to appeal the International Criminal Court and seek justice by completely neutralizing the political components,” he said.

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 CSCE (OSCE after the Budapest summit held in Dec.1994) 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, the 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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