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Demands to liberate occupied Azerbaijani lands – on negotiation table

Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict Materials 17 January 2017 13:02 (UTC +04:00)
There are a number of solutions with regard to the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict’s settlement, including the solutions on the ceasefire.
Demands to liberate occupied Azerbaijani lands – on negotiation table

Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 17

By Elmira Tariverdiyeva – Trend:

There are a number of solutions with regard to the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict’s settlement, including the solutions on the ceasefire, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

He was addressing a press conference on Russia’s 2016 diplomacy, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website.

Demands to liberate the occupied territories – using peaceful means and subsequently determining Nagorno-Karabakh’s status – have always been on the negotiation table, said Lavrov.

He noted that Russia played a decisive role in ending the bloodshed in April 2016 on the contact line between the Armenian and Azerbaijani troops.

The Russian foreign minister added that there is no consensus in OSCE on investigation of the incidents on the contact line of the troops.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts. The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.

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