BAKU: Azerbaijan May Take Other Ways To Liberate Its Occupied Territ

AZERBAIJAN MAY TAKE OTHER WAYS TO LIBERATE ITS OCCUPIED TERRITORY: MINISTER

Trend News Agency
Aug 4 2008
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, Baku, 4 August /Ð¢rend News, J.Babayeva/ Azerbaijan’s
Defence Minister Safar Abiyev said should Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
not be settled peacefully, Azerbaijan may take other ways to liberate
its occupied territory. "Azerbaijan will not stand the Armenian
occupation any more," Abiyev said on 4 August, receiving Pakistan’s
newly appointed Ambassador to Azerbaijan Abdul Hamid.

The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began in
1988 due to Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan
lost the Nagorno-Karabakh, except of Shusha and Khojali, in December
1991. In 1992-93, Armenian Armed Forces occupied Shusha, Khojali and
Nagorno-Karabakh’s seven surrounding regions. In 1994, Azerbaijan
and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which time the active
hostilities ended. The countries keep on peace negotiating.

OSCE Minsk Group co-chaired by USA, Russia, France is engaged in
peace settling of the conflict.

Hamid said Pakistan is one of the countries which were the first to
recognize the independent statehood of Azerbaijan. "Nagorno-Karabakh
is an integral part of Azerbaijan," said Ambassador.

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS