“TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF AZERBAIJAN IS NOT SUBJECT OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH ARMENIA,” ALIYEV
Author: S.Agayeva
TREND Information, Azerbaijan
March 9 2006
“The territorial integrity of Azerbaijan is not subject of the peace
negotiations with Armenia on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict,” Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani President, said at the
Japanese International Relations Institute in Tokyo, Trend reports
referring to Azertaj.
According to Aliyev, the subject of the negotiations is liberation of
the occupied territories, repatriation of the victims of the ethnic
clearance and aggression, granting Nagorno-Karabakh with high status
of autonomy within Azerbaijan.
“All these must meet norms and principles of international law. We
hope for peaceful settlement of the conflict. International community
must play more active part in the solution of the conflict, which is
the largest hindrance for development of the region on the whole,”
the President stressed.
Touching upon development of oil and gas sphere, Aliyev noted that
Azerbaijan can play the role of energy source for Europe, experiencing
gas crisis and looking for alternative sources. He stated that
pipelines were being constructed to take Azerbaijani gas and oil to
the world markets.