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OIC calls for enabling Azerbaijani refugees to return to their homes (UPDATE)

Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict Materials 15 May 2012 10:27 (UTC +04:00)

Details added (the first version was posted at 10:06)

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) calls for enabling the Azerbaijani refugees and expelled population to return to their homes in safety, honour and dignity.

It was mentioned in a certain paragraph of the Ashgabat resolution adopted at the organization's International Conference on the topic "Refugees in Muslim World" held in Turkmenistan's capital on May 11-12, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said.

The adopted document recalls the resolutions and documents of the Council of Foreign Ministers on the Aggression of the Republic of Armenia against the Republic of Azerbaijan and expresses concern over the plight of more than one million Azerbaijani refugees and population expelled from the occupied territories in and around Nagorno-Karabakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan and over magnitude and severity of these humanitarian problems.

"We call for enabling the Azerbaijani refugees and expelled population to return to their homes in safety, honour and dignity and reaffirm our total solidarity with the support for the efforts undertaken by the Government and people of Azerbaijan to this end," the document says.

The OIC also demanded the full implementation of the relevant OIC, UN General Assembly and Security Council resolutions.

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.

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