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  • BAKU: FM: Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Is Armenia's Territorial Claims

    FM: NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT IS ARMENIA'S TERRITORIAL CLAIMS AGAINST AZERBAIJAN

    Trend
    Nov 29 2011
    Azerbaijan

    The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry regarded Armenian President Serzh
    Sargsyan's recent statements about character of Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict as 'gratifying and at the same time strange'.

    "It is gratifying and at the same time strange to hear such statements
    by a person, who has attempted to convince all that "there is no
    Christian to the east of us [Armenians]" and that "the Armenians are
    allegedly ancient Christian nation in the world", Azerbaijani Foreign
    Ministry's spokesman Elman Abdullayev told Trend on Tuesday.

    He was commenting on the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's statement
    that "the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not religious in nature".

    According to the Armenian media reports, Armenian President Serzh
    Sargsyan said on Monday at the CIS Inter-religious Council Presidium
    meeting that the Karabakh conflict is not religious in nature and
    one cannot allow religious of the two countries - Christianity and
    Islam opposed each other.

    "One can feel evolution of Mr. Sargsyan's thinking. However, even
    without his statements, it is obvious that the Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict is not religious in nature, and it is clear that this
    conflict is based on Armenia's territorial claims against Azerbaijan,"
    Abdullayev said.

    "It is interesting that Sargsyan attempts to look constructive and
    tolerant, despite the fact that over these years Armenia has destroyed
    Muslim religious and cultural monuments in the occupied Azerbaijani
    territories and current Armenia's territories which belonged to the
    Azerbaijanis," Abdullayev said.

    The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
    when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
    armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
    including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.

    Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
    co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. -
    are currently holding the peace negotiations.

    Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four
    resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
    surrounding regions.

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