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  • BAKU: No Compromises in Ensuring Territorial Integrity: DM

    Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
    May 29 2008


    Azerbaijan not to Make Any Compromises in Ensuring Its Territorial
    Integrity: Minister of Defence

    29.05.08 20:17

    Azerbaijan, Baku , 29 May /corr. Trend News E.Huseynli / Azerbaijan's
    Minister of Defence said that Azerbaijan will not make any compromises
    in ensuring its territorial integrity. `If Armenia will be continuing
    to deny peaceful settlement of the problem, categorically Azerbaijan
    will not agree with it and will release its lands. Armenia should
    understand it forever,' Azerbaijan's Minister of Defence,
    General-Colonel Safar Abiyev, said during his meeting with the
    Commander of Defense Forces of Estonia, General-Lieutenant Ants
    Laaneots, who is on visit to Baku.

    The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries appeared in 1988
    due to Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenia has
    occupied 20% of the Azerbaijani lands including the Nagorno-Karabakh
    region and its seven surrounding districts. Since 1992 to the present
    time, these territories have been under Armenian occupation. In 1994,
    Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a cease-fire agreement at which time the
    active hostilities ended. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group
    (Russia, France and USA) are holding peaceful negotiations.

    Abiyev said that Armenia, who presents obstacles to the peaceful
    settlement of the conflict, does not fulfill requirements of the
    Resolutions being adopted by the UN Security Council. The Minister
    said that the experience gained by Estonia as a member of NATO is of
    great interest for Azerbaijan.

    In his turn, Commander of Defense Forces of Estonia said that
    development of the relations corresponds to the interests of both
    countries. Touching upon the conflict, the guest said that
    re-establishing the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan is the
    principal position for Estonia, and said that the occupied lands are
    integral part of Azerbaijan.

    Commander of Defense Forces of Estonia, General-Lieutenant Ants
    Laaneots, arrived in Baku on 29 May with an official visit at
    invitation of his Azerbaijani colleague.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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