TURKEY WANTS KARABAKH CONFLICT TO BE RESOLVED WITHOUT VIOLATIONS OF AZERI TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY

Interfax
May 26 2009
Russia

Turkey wants the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to be resolved without
violations of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, Turkish Foreign
Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.

"Azerbaijan should be confident that the 70 million strong Turkish
nation will always be with the brotherly people of Azerbaijan,"
the minister told a briefing in Baku on Tuesday.

Davutoglu also called on the OSCE (Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe) Minsk Group to step up its work on resolving
the conflict. "Frozen conflicts are like time bombs, as we believe
it is time to diffuse them," the Turkish minister said.

Azerbaijan lost control over Nagorno-Karabakh and the seven neighboring
regions as a result of a conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia,
which started in the 1990s.