Azerbaijan, Baku, March 3 / Trend, M. Aliyev /
The EU can contribute to the resolution of Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Head of the Foreign Relations Department of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration Novruz Mammadov believes.
He said Azerbaijan expects the EU to be more actively involved in the settlement process. "The international community should be more actively involved in the conflict resolution," Mammadov said.
He also urged the OSCE Minsk Group to make more efforts to resolve the conflict.
Mediators must find a way out of the situation emerged after the Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian presidents' Kazan meeting, Mammadov said.
The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs are currently on a visit to the region. They will arrive in Baku for negotiations on March 5.
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 the 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.