"Armenian army presence in Azerbaijani territories major impediment to Karabakh conflict settlement"

  31 August 2017    Read: 3482
"Armenian army presence in Azerbaijani territories major impediment to Karabakh conflict settlement"
The unlawful presence of the Armenian armed forces in the territories of Azerbaijan remains the main cause of violence in the conflict zone and is the major impediment to political settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, said Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
He made the remarks at the meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Visegrad Group (V4) and the Eastern Partnership countries in Budapest on Aug. 31, the foreign ministry told AzVision.az.

Mammadyarov said today the sovereignty and territorial integrity of four out of six EaP countries continue to be undermined due to the existing conflicts.

“Failure to eliminate consequences of the ongoing violation of the principles of international law, as well as misinterpretation and selective application of these principles in the context of the conflict resolution undermines rules-based European order,” he said.

It is already third decade that Armenia – a member of the EaP has been using force against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of another member of the EAP and continues to keep the one-fifth of Azerbaijan’s internationally recognized territories under military occupation, the foreign minister noted.

He stressed that Armenia carried out notorious ethnic cleansing on all seized lands of Azerbaijan which totally contradicts to the code of conduct adopted in Europe and the world.

“The unlawful presence of the armed forces of Armenia in the territories of Azerbaijan remains the main cause of violence in the conflict zone and is the major impediment to political settlement of the conflict,” added Mammadyarov.

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