Nagorno-karabakh conflict

Baku remains committed to resolve the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan through negotiations, despite the fact that mediation efforts over 20 years were not always consistent and as yet not produced any results, the Azerbaijani Permanent Representative to the UN Agshin Mehdiyev said, ITAR-TASS reported.

Azerbaijan urged the EU and the European Parliament to take a position based on the norms and principles of international law and to avoid "double standards" in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said at a conference "EU-Azerbaijan: new horizons for the partnership" organized by the European People's Party in Brussels.

The delegation, headed by Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev held a meeting with Armenian President Serzh Sagrsyan in Yerevan, Panorama.am. reported referring to the presidential press-service.

A closer partnership between the United Nations and the 56-member Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the world’s largest regional security grouping, is vital, the Security Council heard today.

France’s position on the prompt resolution of Nagorno Karabakh conflict will stay stable regardless of the French supreme Constitutional Council’s decision on “Armenian genocide” law, Andre Reichardt, First Vice-President of the Regional Council of Alsace (France), Senator of Bas-Rhin told in an interview to Trend during his visit to Azerbaijan

Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian is lying when he talks about the ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani armed forces, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said.

Protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms as well as making progress on resolving protracted conflicts are priorities of the 2012 Irish OSCE Chairmanship, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Irish Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore told the US Helsinki Commission in Washington on Feb.9.

Azerbaijani ambassador to the Netherlands Fuad Iskenderov met with teachers and students of the Academy of National Defense, the Azerbaijani embassy in the Netherlands told Trend.

No incident occurred during the OSCE monitoring on the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces in the north-east of the Horadiz village in the Azerbaijani Fuzuli region on Feb.8, Azerbaijani Defense Ministry spokesman Teymur Abdullayev told Trend on Wednesday.

The European Union would like as a request of parties to launch new ideas in order to promote quicker settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Head of the EU Delegation to Azerbaijan, Ambassador Roland Kobia told journalists on Wednesday.

In connection with the 20th anniversary of the Khojaly tragedy a rally will be held at Taksim square in Istanbul