Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec.23 / Trend M. Aliyev /
Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister, head of the State Refugees and IDP Committee Ali Hasanov accused the international organizations and several countries of the absence of interest in resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
"International organizations and several countries are not interested in resolving the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," Ali Hasanov said on Thursday.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the United States - are currently holding the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of Nagorno Karabakh and the surrounding regions.
The presence of a conflict in this region meets several countries' interests, as countries that received the sovereignty after the collapse of the Soviet Union became dependent on them, Hasanov said. According to him, thus the international organizations and some countries were able to rule the region with a view to using natural resources.
The past 20 years, he said, showed that international organizations are at times interested in the unresolved conflict more than Armenia.
"Today the Azerbaijani people, including refugees and internally displaced persons set all the hopes associated with the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh on the Azerbaijani President's policy," Hasanov said.