By Rashid Shirinov

Vice Speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament, head of the Azerbaijani delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Bahar Muradova has urged Armenian MPs to refrain from making provocative statements.

Muradova, who spoke on the last day of the Assembly’s session in Andorra on October 6, said that every such provocation has been adequately retaliated: “This does not happen for the first time and such statements have not yielded any results so far.”

“This is why I urged my Armenian colleagues to refrain from making provocative statements that can complicate the situation," she noted.

Muradova also said that Armenia is permanently doing this in the occupied Azerbaijani territory that it controls and on the troops' contact line.

"If we can’t do anything at the parliamentary level to ensure that common efforts yield expected results, we should not cause problems,” she added.

Azerbaijan and Armenia for over two decades have been locked in a conflict, which emerged over Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since the war, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities.

Today, Armenia still ignores four UN Security Council resolutions on immediate withdrawal from the occupied territory of Azerbaijan, thus keeping tension high in the region.