Azerbaijan, Baku, April 3 / Trend A. Badalova /
EU calls on both parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to promote and to encourage a peaceful solution and to strengthen the confidence building measures, head of the EU office in Baku Roland Kobia said at the press conference on Wednesday.
"We saw a low path of negotiations on the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia on Nagorno-Karabakh", Kobia said.
"In European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) progress report - 2012 there are the recommendations for Azerbaijan and Armenia to активизировать efforts to reach a peaceful resolution of the conflict," he said.
"The EU has a special representative on this conflict and it will be very useful if he has an access to the occupied territories," he added.
He also said that the EU calls both parties to promote overall environment which will encourage and support peace activities. He also mentioned the importance of the confidence building measures.
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.