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Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb.24 / Trend S.Agayeva /
The best policy for any country is a good-neighborliness policy, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said at a press conference while commenting on a meeting between Azerbaijani and Armenian intellectuals in Moscow.
"The more such meetings will be held the sooner it will be possible to bring peace to the region," Mammadyarov said.
He said it is important for the Azerbaijani public to state clearly that Nagorno Karabakh is Azerbaijani territory. Mammadyarov believes that holding such meetings is important in terms of further strengthening of good-neighborly relations.
Mammadyarov said the negotiation process over Nagorno Karabakh continues and the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs will arrive in the region during the second week of March to discuss further steps.
"We believe that peace and stability will soon come to the region," Mammadyarov said.
Moscow hosted a meeting between Azerbaijani and Armenian intellectuals on Feb.22.
The meeting discussed ways of peaceful settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Azerbaijani National Conservatory Rector Siyavush Karimi, who attended the meeting, told Trend.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 per cent 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 U.S. - are currently holding peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.