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Azerbaijani Authorities See no Need to Inform Public about Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Resolution Process

Politics Materials 4 December 2007 19:14 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan, Baku / corr Trend S.Agayeva / The Azerbaijani authorities do not see the need to inform the public about the process of resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.

Some political parties and movements in Azerbaijan called upon the authorities to make the talks over the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict public.

"At present we have nothing to make public, because no serious decision was taken towards the final peace agreement," Novruz Mammadov, the head of the International Relations Department of the Azerbaijani President's Administration, said.

According to Mammadov, mediators at the present time only present different proposals to the sides and nothing else.

The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began in 1988 due to Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since 1992, Armenian Armed Forces have occupied 20% of Azerbaijan including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and its seven surrounding districts. In 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which time active hostilities ended. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group ( Russia, France, and the US) are currently holding peaceful negotiations.

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