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    ARMENIA ANNOUNCES ABOUT LAUNCHING THE AIRPORT EXPLOITATION IN KHANKENDI

    Trend
    Oct 1 2012
    Azerbaijan

    Armenia has stated about launching the airport exploitation in
    Khankendi in the occupied territories of Nagorno-Karabakh, NEWS.am
    wrote on Monday.

    It was previously reported that it is planned to start flights from
    Yerevan to Khankendi and back soon.

    Commissioning of an airport in Khankendi is an open violation of
    the Convention on International Civil Aviation [signed in Chicago on
    Dec.7, 1944], Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov told
    Trend on Monday.

    Therefore, Azerbaijan will intensify work in legal sphere on applying
    the Chicago Convention, Azimov said.

    Azerbaijan has banned the use of the airspace of Nagorno-Karabakh
    occupied by Armenia, as no one can guarantee flight safety in the
    area, the head of the Azerbaijani Civil Aviation Administration, Arif
    Mammadov, told the New Azerbaijan party's official website earlier.

    He said Armenia's steps directed to the operation of the airport in
    Khankendi are attempts to violate international legal norms. This
    air space belongs to Azerbaijan, so its use by Armenia is impossible.

    The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and the European
    Civil Aviation Conference (ICAC) also support the position of
    Azerbaijan on this issue.

    President Serzh Sargsyan promised to be the first passenger which
    will fly from Khankendi.

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