AZERBAIJANI DELEGATION IN OSCE: "ARMENIA MUST FULLY WITHDRAW ITS TROOPS FROM ALL THE OCCUPIED LANDS OF AZERBAIJAN"
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Dec 5 2008
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani delegation has released the document "Principles, applied
to the peaceful resolution of the conflict around the Nagorno Karabakh
region of Azerbaijan", at the ministerial meeting of OSCE in Helsinki.
The document fixes Azerbaijan’s adherence to the resolution of the
conflict by political means and in the constructive direction.
"Yet Azerbaijan will never make its territorial integrity an object
of compromise and will not recognize the resolution, based on a
"complete fact", which Armenia is trying to impose", says the document.
The document fixes that "the conflict can only be settled on the
basis of respect to the territorial integrity and inviolability of
internationally recognized borders of Azerbaijan, peaceful co-existence
of Armenian and Azerbaijani communities of Nagorno karabakh within
Azerbaijan and their equal use of democracy and prosperity".
"The final aim of the process is the development and definition of a
model and legal frames of the status of the Karabakh region within
Azerbaijan. The process of definition of any status must be held
in normal peaceful conditions with a direct, complete and equal
participation of the whole population of the region, especially
the Armenian and Azerbaijani communities and their constructive
interaction with the government of Azerbaijan exclusively in the
framework of legal and democratic process", says the document.
The published "Principles" also stress that "several important steps
must be taken in order to pass to the stage of talks on the status
of self-government in Nagorno Karabakh region within Azerbaijan".
Among them the Azerbaijani delegation listed the following: "the
factor of armed occupation must be removed from the context of the
conflict resolution. Armenia must fully withdraw its troops from all
the occupied lands of Azerbaijan. Any delay in the return of lands may
protract the process"; "internally displaced persons must be safely
returned to the lands of their past residence in Nagorno karabakh
region and adjacent lands"; "Special programs on reconciliation and
tolerance must be initiated to encourage cooperation between the two
communities of Nagorno Karabakh".
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
