MAHMUD MAMMADGULIYEV: BSECO COUNTRIES SHOULD URGE ARMENIA TO RESPECT INTERNATIONAL LAW
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Oct 25 2007
"Armenia’s keeping 20 per cent of Azerbaijani territories under
occupation, making over one million people refugees contradicts
international law and principles of Black Sea Economic Cooperation
Organization," Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmud Mammadguliyev
said in the 17th meeting of Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization
(BSECO) in Ankara, APA’s correspondent reports.
Mahmud Mammadguliyev underlined that Armenia’s aggressive policy
impedes peace, stability and economic growth in the region.
"I call on the members of Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization
to approach the fact of occupation seriously and exert pressure on
Armenia to respect the organization’s principles and international
law," he said.
Mahmud Mammadguliyev seriously criticized the bureaucratic obstacles
in the work of BSECO and called to take new measures to make the
organization more dynamic.