Interfax - Russia & CIS Military Newswire Monday 2:20 PM MSK Azerbaijani FM complains about Syrian Armenians settling in Karabakh at meeting with Vatican secretary BAKU. Feb 12 Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov informed Msgr. Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican Secretary for Relations with States, about the Karabakh settlement process at a meeting in Baku on Monday. Armenian refugees from Syria are illegally settling in Nagorno-Karabakh, Mammadyarov said. "The policy of settlements on the occupied lands and attempts at wittingly changing the demographic composition [of the population] flagrantly violate international law," Mammadyarov said. He informed Gallagher about the Karabakh settlement process and Baku's stance. The sides expressed concern about increasing racism, xenophobia, ethnic and religious hate, and the aspiration to give a political coloring to conflicts, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said in a statement.