Baku, Azerbaijan, April 28
Trend:
Ankara hopes for the solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, taking into account respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan, said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, according to Interfax-Military news Agency.
"We hope that the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh will be solved within the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan," he said speaking at the ministerial meeting of the countries participating in Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in Beijing.
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.