Azerbaijan, Baku, July 13 / Trend S. Agayeva /
Baku wants the OSCE to be objective while assessing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Austria Fuad Ismayilov told Trend.
An OSCE Minsk Group mission to the occupied territories this autumn will report on the number of Armenians who have been resettled in the area.
A report will then be prepared, the ambassador said over the phone from Vienna.
The OSCE paid its first visit to the occupied territories to study the resettlement issue in 2005 upon the request of official Baku.
The mission reported that roughly 15,000-16,000 people have been resettled by Armenia in the region, which is far below Azerbaijan's official figure of 20,000-23,000.
Today, Azerbaijan has new data about the resettlement processes, and is waiting proposals from the OSCE on how to best deal with this issue, Ismayilov said.
Armenian officials have discussed openly the resettlement of Armenians in these territories.
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 resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh region and the occupied territories.