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    ILHAM ALIYEV: SOLUTION TO NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT MUST BE BASED ONLY ON PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

    Today
    Dec 1 2010
    Azerbaijan

    Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is partcipating in 7th OSCE summit
    in Astana. The President has delivered a speech at the summit today.

    The ongoing armed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan continues
    to represent a major threat to international and regional peace and
    stability, Aliyev stated to the OSCE Summit in Astana.

    "As a result of the policy of ethnic cleansing conducted by Armenia
    against Azerbaijanis, 20% of the territory of Azerbaijan is under
    occupation. One million Azerbaijanis became refugees and internally
    displaced persons on their own land. Armenia continues to occupy not
    only Nagorno-Karabakh, but also seven other regions of Azerbaijan,"
    the President said.

    According to President Aliyev, Armenia destroyed Azerbaijani
    cities and villages, homes and sacred place, graves of ancestries
    and mosques. "They committed war crimes, genocide in Khojaly, where
    hundreds of civilians were killed by Armenian armed forces only because
    they were Azerbaijanis. Among the innocent victims of Khojali more
    than 100 were children," Aliyev stressed.

    Nagorno-Karabakh is a historic part of Azerbaijan. It is
    internationally recognized part of Azerbaijan, Aliyev said.

    "Today Armenia continues to use force for sustaining the control
    over the occupied territories and to hinder the return of the IDPs
    to their homes," Aliyev underscored. "But nevertheless Azerbaijan
    remains committed to the peaceful negotiations and still hopes that
    they will bring results."

    According to the Azerbaijani president, solution to the conflict
    must be based only on the respect to the norms and principles of
    international law, implementation of four Security Council resolution,
    decisions of OSCE, and resolutions of European Parliament, the Council
    of Europe, and other international organizations.

    "But Armenia instead of negotiating, and finding a durable solution to
    the conflict as soon as possible, gives preference to escalation with
    unpredictable consequences. Armenia permanently violates the ceasefire
    regime, conducts military training in the occupied territories, tries
    to rename the historical names of our occupied cities and villages,"
    Aliyev said.

    According to Azerbaijani leader, Armenia illegally settles civilians in
    the occupied territories, tries to make the situation irreversible,
    and peace process meaningless. "Illegal activity by Armenia on
    the occupied territories was reflected in the report of the OSCE
    fact-finding mission to the region in 2005."

    "The way how Armenia behaves during the negotiation process leads us
    to the conclusion that Armenia does not want peace, does not want to
    liberate the occupied territories but want to keep the status-quo
    as long as they can and make negotiation process endless," Aliyev
    pointed out.

    OSCE Minsk Group was created in 1992, negotiations are held for almost
    20 years but without any results, Aliyev added.

    "Azerbaijan values the proposals that the Minsk group co-chairing
    countries have elaborated over past 6 years within the Prague process.

    We are ready to continue negotiations and to finalize them as soon
    as possible and to achieve the solution which will be based on the
    norms and principles of the international law within the framework
    of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan," Aliyev stressed.

    President Aliyev also expressed his gratitude to President Nursultan
    Nazarbayev and Kazakh friend for excellent organization of this summit,
    for warm hospitality and of the chairing of OSCE in surround the year.




    From: A. Papazian
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